The incidentaloma menace: Why GPs and radiologists need to talk
Associate Professor Tom Sutherland believes a much closer relationship could help avoid spiralling investigations.
“You have got a community that thinks modern medicine is amazing and can tell them everything with certainty — and the reality is it cannot.”
Associate Professor Tom Sutherland describes a truth doctors are forced to acknowledge every day of their working lives.
As a radiologist over the past 20 years, he has benefitted from a revolution: dramatic improvements in imaging technology.
He has told The Sydney Morning Herald recently that a CT scan now offers him 240 slices of brain in contrast to the 24 when he first qualified.
