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Jfazz22
Jfazz22 Member Posts: 3
edited July 2018 in Waiting for Test Results

I wanted to share my story with you ladies and get your feedback. Hopefully I will inspire someone to look very closely at all of their reports.

6/19 I go for yearly mammo. I find on the patient portal that I must repeat the test. Birads 0. Asymmetrical breast tissue found in LEFT breast and medial of LEFT breast. I should follow up with 3d mammo and sono ONLY if needed contingent on mammo.

6/26 I go for follow up mammo. Radiologist viewed mammo while I waited but never spoke to me. I was called in for a sono (I figured the mammo results warranted the test).

6/26 I go on the patient portal and review results. Mammo Birads 1 and come back in 1 year. I start to wonder why then did they do the sono. I view sono results. Birads 0 come back for MRI.

6/29 I reread my sono results and notice that at the beginning of the report it states:

“Patient is receiving sono based on 6/19 mammo finding of asymmetrical tissue and modules in the right breast. The left breast is healthy and shows no irregularities”.

Let start by saying my mammo showed asymmetrical tissue in the LEFT breast and the word nodules was never spoken on my mammo reports. This information was completely innacurate.

6/29 I go back to radiology center and explain my concerns. A different radiologist acknowledged the errors and reread my report. He stated the following:

“If I read your report I would have recommended you come back in 6 months to look at right axilar non specific complex structure to see if it grew. Both breasts are healthy and I think an MRI is overkill.”

On Monday I am calling customer relations and requesting all my tests be reread and reports rewritten accurately. I am canceling my MRI with them on Tuesday and setting up an appointment for a complete evaluation with a different center.

I realize a sono is not a big deal but how dare they do any uneccessary testing without speaking to me first? I would have had the sono done no question but it’s not their right to decide that for me. I am so upset. Has anyone ever experienced anything like this



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  • mustlovepoodles
    mustlovepoodles Member Posts: 2,825
    edited July 2018

    I agree with you. Someone is dropping the ball and im not sure i could continue to trust them. Get a different radiology group to look at all your imaging, preferably at a different hospital system.

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  • beach2beach
    beach2beach Member Posts: 996
    edited July 2018

    Yes, definitely register a complaint and take all copies of mammos/sonos etc, and go somewhere else. They do make mistakes. My daughter had previously had knee surgery from sports. One of the surgeries was for her meniscus. 7months later she tore it again. Orthopedist sends us to an imaging place.(one we had never been to before) They do an MRI. We go back in a few days to orthopedist and he is perplexed because report shows that it was torn on the inside side of the knee rather than on the outside side which is what he felt it was again. I anyway had decided to get her a 2nd opinion since she was needing a repeat surgery of the same knee in less than a year. See a new orthopedist who reads reports but looks at CD. Says he always does to see for himself. Well the report was wrong. It was on the outside side of her knee, not the inside. They either read it wrong, dictated it wrong whatever. But had he not looked at it and went and did surgery based just on the report, it would have been a mess.

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  • princessfluffybritches
    princessfluffybritches Member Posts: 81
    edited July 2018

    I think they should give people a copy of everything without asking, just like eye scripts.

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