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To the Editor.—Having practiced diagnostic radiology for 34 years, I can tell you that radiologists are rarely "gifted," since we are nearly invisible to the general public.¹ While in the air force in the '60s, I took home no Christmas presents while the general medical officers took home their hams and packages of golf balls.

However, I did recently receive a gift that was very meaningful. I had seen a chest x-ray film of a middle-aged woman and thought that I saw a new faint "spot." I recommended to her internist that the patient should have a repeat x-ray examination and chest fluoroscopy to see if this spot was real. A few days later I saw the patient's name on the computed tomography (CT) schedule. I arranged instead for her to come in before the CT scan for the recommended repeat films and fluoroscopy. The new films showed nothing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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