Does the paper provided by a physician indicating a patient should do an MRI without referring any business referred to as a prescription or referral?
Are the comments on the paper provided by a physician indicating a patient should do an MRI without mentioning any medical imaging business referred to as a prescription or referral? What makes a lab order different?
According to Wikimedia
- Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org////////////dl/em/?pkg3=017/… org/wiki/prescription : A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James Fries.html org/wiki/referral : referral : the act or process of transferring someone or something to another, of sending by reference — or referring.
None of these two definitions apply to the paper as an MRI isn’t a medicine or other intervention. And the paper doesn’t refer to anyone.
Example of the such paper on which physician ordered some MRI to a patient ( source ):
According to the form in the example post, it is a prescription.
Incidentally, this example prescription does specify that the patient receive a medicine: The “contrast” material is needed in the patient’s body when the MRI is performed.
