Categories of Medical Findings

Name: Categories of Medical Findings
Uploaded: 2025-03-12T16:00:54+00:00
Duration: 45 s
Channel: Dr. Charles Mok
Description: A short YouTube monologue by a clinician (Dr. Charles Mok) explaining how imaging findings are classified into three categories—incidental (no action)…

12 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by a clinician (Dr. Charles Mok) explaining how imaging findings are classified into three categories—incidental (no action), interval follow-up (e.g., mildly enlarged thoracic aorta), and urgent findings requiring expedited workup (e.g., suspicious pancreatic tail mass)—and describing patient communication practices: giving contact info, reviewing raw data line-by-line, and providing a plain-English translation of results.

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I'd like to classify our findings in a few different categories. Incidental finding that you need to do nothing about. If you had not had this scan, you would have had no idea. You would have lived your entire life and had no idea that you had a cyst in your liver. The second is a finding that maybe requires follow up in 6 months, 12 months, and sometimes we'll see a slightly enlarged thoracic aorta. Then we have more urgent findings. Get a call and say, hey, there's a suspicious mass at the tail of the pancreas. Let's get them in and let's get that follow up test sooner than later. All of our patients get my cell phone number and get my email and I am very accessible to all of our patients. When we do our results appointment, we go line by line through the raw data and then I also give what I call the English translation of that raw data.