Chronic Obstruction of the Small Bowel

Abstract

tation were not as familiar with the normal as they should be. Dr. Nicholson did not make his diagnosis from the pyelograms alone but from the symptoms, aided by the pictures, and he proved it in the pathologic laboratory. The roentgenologist does not see the patient as a whole ; hence he is usually incapable of making the diagnosis. Because of the tendency to depend on his opinions, many roentgenologists feel that they are wholly responsible for diagnoses and that as soon as their reports are rendered the films are no longer of value and importance and can be destroyed.