Originally Posted by
DougRNS
Just got done with follow up televisit for my back. I reported no improvement which is true. now they want to do an EMG nerve conduction study before going further. Sounds like fun. Their approach is to shoot and then find the target later - apparently. That's why they call it PRACTICING medicine. Practice? Practice? SMFH.
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There is a joke about three physicians in a duck blind:
A bird flies over and the internist says, "could be a duck, but we must rule out goose, and, of course, there's a chance it's a very big sparrow," and by that time the bird is out of sight.
Another bird flies over and the radiologist raises his gun and says, "There's a silhouette against the sky, which likely represents a duck, suggest clinical correlation," and the bird is gone.
A bird flies over head, the surgeon fires immediately and says, "what the **** was that?"
Yes, that EMG/NCS should have been done first.