Visit Our Website Connect with me on LinkedIn It’s kind of an inside joke around our office that I’ve been called “brilliant” by a physician for my interpretation of a lumbar MRI. This story happened several years ago when Stacy Mathis, RN working with me in training, and was my witness! This physician is known for his eccentric personality, and he went all out to make me feel as though my critical thinking skills really were brilliant! I was attending a clinic visit for MMI and PPI assignment of a shoulder and lumbar injury. The shoulder had been complicated by a postoperative infection, and was now healed. The lumbar injury had been diagnosed as a strain, although an MRI had been obtained to rule out a disc herniation. I was expecting a high ra...
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