Echo with Dr NoName reported

[PikaPika88]

I have my echo done a month ago.  I make an appointment to see my cardio.  He rang up and asked why still haven't received the report yet.  Answer: No doctor reporting that.

He asked to fax through a copy (sound like machine split out one) without a doctor reporting.  How reliable that a machine split out one that we can base on?  We saw a lot of posts here said, "EKG reports spliting by the machine is totally un reliable".  Yes, at the end of the report, Reported Dr....... (Blank)  Dr NoName!  

How should you do if this happen to you?  I believe I won't be the only one.

[PikaPika88]

All the time it would be a cardiologist looking at the scanning films + EKG showing kind of heart movement etc.  The sizes were taken by the technician... click here and click there.  The machine splits out the measurement as the technician click from the start and the end.....  some sort like that, I think.  If no cardiologist was reporting that, that means no one has seen after the tech has done her job.  No one has seen the comparision with the ultrasound and EKG.  I don't know, I feel no confident if no doctor signed at the end of the report......  And also they did mention it was no cardiologist reporting my echo.  Was sitting there for one whole month......  I'm wondering how they charge?  Who is the doctor collecting that service fee?

[Lynn63]

I think PikaPlka88 was talking about the fact that an EKG machine automatically prints out a report but the findings are reviewed by a Cardiologist who may makes changes to the interpretation by the machine.  I used to work in a Heart Center where we had to make the changes after the Cardiologist made corrections on the EKG forms.  I can't remember the percentage but I would say the majority of the time corrections were made by the interpreting Cardiologist.
I can't tell you how the Echo is done (whether there is a preliminary report prior to Cardiologist reading) but I wouldn't think so.

[Jerry_NJ]

Given a doctor prescribed an echocardiogram, I'd assume one was needed.  Thus, I would argue for a "signed" report, or for another echocardiogram.

I am not sure what you mean:  "..machine split out...splitting" as used to describe EKG and echo report.