Musculoskeletal Imaging
Physician-authored articles on X-ray interpretation, connected anatomical regions and musculoskeletal imaging patterns.
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The Night the X-Ray Escaped
An X-ray hand breaks free, flies above a neon city and returns to the clinic. A 35-second visual fantasy about what radiographs reveal—and what they leave out.
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Radiation Dose, in Perspective: A New Interactive Calculator
An original radiation dose calculator by Olga Goodman, MD, for patients and professionals. Record sides, projections and repeat studies, compare exposures, and inspect the calculation. Try the full tool inside this announcement.
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Seven Years to a Diagnosis: The Wrong Way to Spare a Patient From Radiation
Find Olga Goodman’s Doximity essay on delayed axial arthritis diagnosis, the role of sacroiliac imaging and the tradeoffs of avoiding radiographs.
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The strongest imaging intelligence is not the one that speaks first. It is the one that can show its work.
Explore why radiographic conclusions should remain connected to the image, location, comparison and uncertainty that support them.
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A Novelist’s Hands
A physician’s essay from Key West on Hemingway, hemochromatosis and the art of recognizing systemic patterns in hand and joint findings.
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Six Toes and a Lesson in Limb Development.
Explore how polydactyl cats open a discussion of limb development, skeletal patterning and the distinction between extra digits and disease.
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If Humans Had Tails: What It Would Actually Do to Your Spine
A physician explores a speculative anatomy question: how retaining a tail could change the human spine, pelvic loading and skeletal mechanics.
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Protected: Podcast Episode: DISH vs Ankylosing Spondylitis
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Ankylosing SpA vs DISH
Read a clinical imaging essay on distinguishing DISH from ankylosing spondylitis using structural patterns and appropriate axial imaging coverage.
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Straightening of Cervical Lordosis:
Explore what a brief cervical lordosis report can miss and how systematic structural reading adds context to cervical spine radiographs.
Rheumatology is the art of suspecting inflammation. Radiology is the art of waiting until it finally agrees to be seen.
Rheumatology diagnoses the argument. Radiology waits for the evidence to calcify.