RUGBY MATTERS
BRENDAN GALLAGHER
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IF THERE is one thing I have learned over the last six years dealing with neurologists as they grapple with a complex and changing case of my own, it is that nothing is simple in their world. Or rarely. They are well capable of interpreting exactly the same brain MRI image and symptoms very differently and offering varying diagnosis. Consensus is elusive.
As one told me: “What we can see (with an MRI) is not always what you get (symptoms) and what you get is not always what we can see.” i.e. one set of MRI s...