Posted by bimini on August 5, 2005, at 9:29:10
In reply to Does anybody have received a PET ? was this useful, posted by Tepiaca on August 2, 2005, at 18:15:30
I don't know why they have these fancy machines and then discourage their use. It has also been suggested to me to have a PET or a SPECT. I was told it was useless for definite diagnosis due to lack of trained technicians to interpret the data.
The Doc that says it was useless because depression was obvious is the first who should have a PET to examine his head! Makes me mad, these absolute statements.I had an abnormal MRI, a lesion at a ventricle and five areas of signal intensity. I want to know what happened to me and I get treated like the Docs know. No, they don't know, they are guessing! They could find out specifics with the tool of technology but won't try. But to act like the guess work is the absolute is the ultimate insult.
I think my only chance to get a PET is as a research study object. Any other further imaging tools utilization I can only hope for post mortem. Yes, the tools are there, powerful and underutilized, it borders on negligence.
bimini
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