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Originally Posted by DrJ
It's definitely not broken. All x-rays are either dictated by a radiologist by the time your ER doc will see it or they have not been seen by a radiologist, yet. If it is the second scenario, it is the job of the ER doc to interpret them. Usually, this is very easily done. Your x-ray would have eventually been looked at by a radiologist and if they found a break, you would have been contacted ASAP. Even if the image was poorly taken, you would have been asked to take another one.
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not necessarily. increased soft tissue swelling can decrease the sensitivity of the initial x-ray and usually, the advice of the radiologists is to repeat the radiograph in approximately one week if the symptoms have not started to improve. that being said, the sensitivity of the initial x-ray is usually quite high.