I Got This

Every scan needs to be done with and without contrast (particularly when the order is filled out by a secretary or nurse practitioner), just because. Because we must be literally talked out of performing head CT studies at 10 mm thickness with low resolution. Someone with academic inclinations should do a study about what people who request in this fashion think of the final product from the radiology department (which almost assuredly followed a standard protocol) that bears little relationship to their odd phrasing and stipulations.