What an amazing presentation!!. Salute to Dr Collins for explaining all of these findings in a very easy way. Thanks to the organisers too for making this video available on youtube.
Due to your fantastic presentation I was able to confront a brand new doctor who thought she'd talk down to me. She asked me why I was there. I told her because someone at another hospital had diagnosed me with Pulmonary Fibrosis 4 years ago, but nobody told me about it. I just found it on my discharge papers from the hospital when I got an upper GI in April of this year, 2023. She says, "Who diagnosed you with that?" She said it harshly, too, by golly. "I'm looking at your records and it just says you have COPD!" I said, "I don't know who. It was listed under current problems. I wish I would have bought my discharge papers. I could show you." She looked and looked, or pretended to be looking, then determined I was a whack job. I got pissed and another doctor I watched on RU-vid said to get up from your low sitting position in your chair when they try this and stand at eye level, so I did. I told her I got a new dedicated thin slice ct scan and grabbed the disk, myself and looked at it and I could see clear signs of emphysema, but I could also see clear signs of pulmonary fibrosis. I grabbed it before the doctor report was on it because of transportation issues but I forgot to tell her that. She again said, "When did you get a lung ct scan? All I'm seeing is an abdominal ct scan from 2 weeks ago!" I am getting symptoms of early onset dementia, which is why I push my brain so hard. I told her I couldn't remember for sure exctly but I had just gotten a ct lung scan and it is on RU-vid right now. I asked, "You wanna see it? I made a video of the stack!" She said "No!" I was gonna play it on my phone. She treated me like the underbelly of society and had her receptionist print up the report from 2 weeks ago that she claimed was an abdominal scan. I grabbed it and said, "There! You see? You see this right here? It says Lungs and thorax! Why are you treating me like I am stupid?" She said, "Oh! I see, now! It's a comparison of your lungs from your last abdominal ct scan!" I said, "Duh!" She says, "But it only says you have COPD! Then she began reading it aloud and the first thing it said was "ground glass opacities and scarring and fibrosis." I said, "Uhuh! See?" Then she read on further and it said something about it was probably due to infection, but she did not order antibiotics. Same thing my primary doctor said, but she did not order them either. Nobo I let her know I wasn't putting up with her or my other doctor talking to me like I was stupid anymore. It was from 2 weeks ago, but she messed me up acting confrontational toward me as if I was a liar, nuts, or dumb. I also presented her with a one and a half page long list of comorbidities and I said, "I know." It looks more Post-Mortem." She said, "Have you been on RU-vid or the internet looking at medical videos?" I said, "Yes." She ordered me a nebulizer with generic Symbicort and Albuterol and a thing you breathe into that shakes up your lungs and works the phlegm loose and said to cough it up and spit it out because the phlegm is what contains all the infection and germs and I said, "I know. I sit next to a small trash can and cough it up and spit into it constantly." I found out if I swallow a teaspoon of peanut butter before I lay down I can clear out the mucous better in the morning when I wake up." She said, "Now you've taught me something!" You can learn things from anyone, even a small child, if you listen. She was just dead set on not listening. I am pissed. I can't trust them. I have to get better at reading these because you have to be your own advocate. You equipped my little brain with enough knowledge to stop them from messing with me and I am eternally grateful to you as I find your video is the best one on RU-vid. My primary doctor said they were only looking at a nodule but it didn't change. This doctor said the same thing, but that it disappeared. Come on! I just wanna know if I'm on my way out. You know? It's not like I'm going to ask for a transplant. I don't want one. I just want an accurate diagnosis. As an added measure I told them both I was worried about cognitive decline so I memorized the last 15 presidents then I recited them. Hello? I'm still here.
By far my favorite training review video of al time ! Excellent ! I hope you will add pet scans discussions also and the new lung rads LCS topics please
Thank you dr. Collins for such an informative course I have a new position is an extra check with the opportunity to cross-train to CT graveyard this is helping me and I'm paying very close attention thank you Michael Sherman Oaks Hospital Sherman Oaks, CA and what you mentioned about the jacks I used to play that as well I look much younger than I am LOL
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