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Dr Rays focal spot: September 2007
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Dr Rays focal spot. Friday, 28 September 2007. Hospital Scandal: "MP did not consent to digital insertion". Nulabour MP, James Purnell, has accused Tameside General Hospital of subjecting him to a digital insertion without his consent. The NHS Trust has admitted that a digital insertion took place but claims that Mr Purnell asked for it. Mr Purnell, 37, is Gordon Brown's new Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, a post previously held by Chris Smith, the first openly gay MP. Dr Ray at Work.
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Dr Rays focal spot: DoH pulls plug on MercuryHealth mobile scanners
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Dr Rays focal spot. Wednesday, 21 November 2007. DoH pulls plug on MercuryHealth mobile scanners. Tuesday was a truly horrible day in the West Midlands. I took a day out to attend a radiologists' meeting at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham, only 70 odd miles away, and spent a total of 5 hours on the road driving (or sitting in stationary traffic) in heavy rain and half an hour queuing for lunch for the sake of around 4 hours of lectures. The news was also briefly covered in the Guardian. I would guess t...
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Dr Rays focal spot: November 2007
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Dr Rays focal spot. Sunday, 25 November 2007. Mercury Health's second failed venture. To a man (or woman) they chose to make it a personal attack on me while seeking public sympathy for their individual plight, now that the grunts at the front line have lost their jobs. I will even go as far as giving additional prominence to some of the comments:. Dr Ray's face in this focal spot is a true representaion of yourself! Does anyone else have trouble understanding this? Labels: second rate diagnostics. I too...
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Dr Rays focal spot: December 2007
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Dr Rays focal spot. Sunday, 30 December 2007. MRI scan price war. Private imaging cowboys shoot it out. A couple of years ago it was quite common-place for patients to be charged £600 for a single area MRI scan. The atmosphere surrounding private medicine was very much like I imagine it is when buying a Saville Row suit: "if Sir. Needs to ask the price then Sir. They had the lucrative London market to themselves for about a year but just before this Christmas, Med-Tel, another private scanning centre in ...
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Dr Rays focal spot: June 2007
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Dr Rays focal spot. Friday, 22 June 2007. Hasta la vista baby. He did make one change: he replaced "accurate" with "assured". I suppose he can't really vouch for the accuracy of the radiologists' reports, even if they are super special, so this is a wise move, although it betrays a lack of confidence. Anyway, "assured" sounds good even though it's meaningless. I find he is getting links to his site by posting thinly veiled adverts on various article sites like amazines. In an effort to reduce staff costs...
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Dr Rays focal spot: February 2008
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Dr Rays focal spot. Sunday, 17 February 2008. It's been a while since I wrote anything on this blog and I owe an apology to the small circle of readers who visit regularly. I do have other excuses. I originally set up this blog to help publicise UK-radiology. Finally, one of our number is on maternity leave and we decided to do her work between us rather than employ a locum. Radiologists suffer a credibility problem in hospitals and a bad locum can undo, in a few weeks, what has taken years to build ...
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Dr Rays focal spot: July 2007
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Dr Rays focal spot. Monday, 30 July 2007. Of mice and Milburn. 2nd wave diagnostics was a scheme originally promoted by former Health Secretary Alan Milburn as a way of transferring diagnostics from the NHS to the private sector where it could be done more "efficiently" by lower skilled and lower paid folk from Eastern Europe. He was a paid advisor to Alliance Medical, a company that expected to benefit from such work. Friday, 27 July 2007. Written by American doctors. As I mentioned before, this was...
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