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Consultation With A Young Spine Patient And His Mother

As they sit together, there is enough time to let them go through their story and make them comfortable with the medical decision.

Published onOct 25, 2022
Consultation With A Young Spine Patient And His Mother
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A teenage spine patient has come with his mother. He has looked at the pictures at home, there are hundreds of them on the disc that was given to them after the scanner. They are anxious, expecting some bad news. Professor Vajkoczy is confident: the symptoms do not make him think that surgical intervention is necessary. Sports practice must be adapted, and the troubling alteration detected in the images should be monitored every year by another scan. As they sit together, there is enough time to let them go through their story and make them comfortable with the medical decision that there is, for now at least, nothing to worry about. 

Next: Peter Vajkoczy taking a quick look at his social media while preparing for surgery in the locker room

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Anna L. Roethe:

These light boxes are showrooms in their own way, the digital version just as much as the analogue before. As patients become more acquainted with radiological image aesthetics - through popular and social media, mainly - I wonder if there is an actual evolution in understanding the findings (their size, location, accessability, maybe texture) and if this understanding helps make them »touchable« as they are touchable for the surgeon.