“Your report indicates a mass of almost 13 cm size. I'm having a hard time understanding the geometry of something that size fitting in the left atrium. Is this a typo?”
He just replied by return email:
“The mass is actually in the left ventricle. I will check the measurements today and give an area calculation.”
So . . . no immediate response to my query regarding the possibility that an order-of-magnitude (10x) error may have been made regarding the reported size of the tumor. I wouldn’t think you’d have to go back to the charts to make that call. And I don’t even know what to say about the fact that the report states the tumor is in the left atrium and now it’s apparently in the left ventricle. I hate to be picky about little details like what chamber of the heart the tumor is in, and I don’t mean to be disrespectful or ungrateful, but doesn’t this class of error contribute to situations in which people have the wrong kidney removed? And I paid $1,275 out-of-pocket for this test and report?
Yet another crack in the foundation of my confidence in the medical community . . .
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