The Radiologist Who Won an Olympic Medal

Nils Westermark. Does this name ring a bell? If you’re a radiologist, you probably vaguely remember Westermark’s sign, one of about half-a-dozen eponymous signs you had once memorised to remember the findings of pulmonary thromboembolism (a blood clot in one of the arteries of the lungs) on a chest X-ray. But did you know that …

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