Understand your report.
The language of MRI, CT and X-ray, in plain English.
A radiology report is careful specialist work: radiologists examine your images against medical standards and record every finding precisely. But those reports are written first and foremost for other doctors. They use terms that are second nature to a physician and baffling to everyone else. That is not a failure of the system so much as a gap in who the writing is for.
It is also why every second opinion at Second View includes a summary written for patients — not for the referring doctor, but for you.
This glossary goes one step further: plain-language explanations of the terms that show up most often in reports, so you can read your own report with confidence.