[pc86]

Until I took a senior developer role at a radiology practice I had no idea what DICOM was. The idea that a physician should know is kind of fanciful, isn't it? In 99.99% of cases, they load images by clicking a button that says "Display images" in a PACS, or RIS, or the images are loaded automatically by workflow. It's like expecting someone who has only ever viewed webpages, and never even viewed the source let alone made a webpage, to know the difference between JPEG, GIF, and PNG.

[1MachineElf]

Physicians know that a DICOM file is what you get when you export from their viewer software. I asked a chiropractor for my x-rays and they just gave me a CD with two DICOM files on it. That chiropractor was an idiot, but at least they knew what a DICOM was.