If
the diagnosis is in doubt, a blood test can be performed for confirmation.
If
the diagnosis is in doubt or if the patient will undergo surgery, a myelogram may be performed.
Not exact matches
With 1,500 cervical cancer
diagnoses and 380 deaths from the disease each year
in Canada alone, there
's no
doubt easier screening could have a huge impact on women
's health care.
In the case of a therapeutic termination, you no
doubt went through extensive testing and counseling with a perinatologist to assure you that your baby's
diagnosis was fatal.
And I will say this (I don't
doubt that other medical professionals told her this as well, though maybe
in a kinder more obscure way): a
diagnosis of HIE with seizures and an abnormal MRI
is NOT a «normal, healthy baby».
Making choices
in the face of
doubt is hardly unusual — we routinely contend with projected weather forecasts, financial predictions, medical
diagnoses, and election polls.
Somerville's post-mortem on the Copenhagen conference leaves no
doubt that the Copenhagen
Diagnosis was designed to drive the negotiations
in a specific direction:
We have had distant early warnings of this for well over a decade, and if you
doubt that — or even if you don't — I invite you to read The New York Times» coverage of Lord, Day, & Lord's closing its doors
in 1994 (with the pithy headline /
diagnosis: «Oldest Law Firm
is Courtly, Loyal, and Defunct»).
While he
was no
doubt referring to the fact that since his cancer
diagnosis, former Toronto mayor Rob Ford has had his medical records breached four times
in four different hospitals,
in fact data breaches involving patient information
in Ontario have gone back much further than this, evidencing that institutions have
been having difficulty meeting their legal requirements to protect this data.