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by moneil971 2611 days ago
In the article, the dr uploads the scan for confirmation. I agree the average person shouldn’t be trying to self diagnose from a scan, but anyone could upload a scan to a dr they couldn’t travel to.
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Ultrasound is actually something that requires training and The imaging quality is very operator dependent. This physician is definitely reading the scans himself and acting upon them; uploading might just be for some kind of confirmation and formal quantification.

You can't just hand someone a probe and expect them to produce meaningful images. Especially in this kind of context where presumably they are getting used in dozens of different contexts; it really does require some medical reasoning and anatomical knowledge.