“How long does it take for the rad… specialist, whoever he is, to give the report?” The daughter pushes further.
“Don’t worry, our Chief Executive has promised on behalf of their Chief-of-Service on behalf of the front line radiologists that it would be available within one hour,” the doctor explains, “But, before that, we need to wait for our virtual technology specialist to go through the films and confirm their quality to be suitable for reading and reporting…”
After another moment of dead silence, the young woman says again, “Well, once we get hold of the report, can you start some treatment ?”
“No, not that fast… I mean, don’t jump to the conclusion that quickly. We need to see all the other results.”
“Yes, of course. I suppose ECG and blood tests are simple matters?”
“Alas, simple as they seem, we need to be very cautious to protect ourselves - I mean, our administrators - oh, I actually want to say, our patients.” The young doctor hurries to explain, betraying himself subconsciously that he is not sure which party his is trying to protect primarily, “After several recent incidents of missing an abnormal ECG or blood test result - all labelled as our malpractice and negligence - recently, our CE decides to have all the ECG read by a heart specialist, and blood tests interpreted by an expert of laboratory chemistry.”
“!” The woman is dumbfounded.
The exclamation mark represents what she looks like, not what she says.
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