If I was a pediatric radiologist, who had sent a woman home with a 3 day old baby assuring her that her child didn't have achondroplasia or hypochondroplasia, telling her that the x-rays were all clear, I think I would want to see the list of radiology findings (if offered to me by the mother) that another specialist could list based on the same x-rays I have reviewed...
I think I would try to get over my pride and my desire to learn from my mistake would be greater than my ego...
Sadly the radiologist where Fi was born doesn't think like me, so only God knows how many children will go un-diagnosed, because they don't have a pathologically information hungry mother who sends their baby's X-rays to the one of the best experts in the world...
Petite yet fierce - Ramblings of a pathologically information hungry mother about hypochondroplasia, about rearing 3 girls in a foreign country and about all the random thoughts my sleep deprived and over-stimulated brain can come up with.
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