“Not for diagnostic purposes”

That’s a legally-driven warning formula, of course, intended to repel the specter of liability lawsuits if a diagnosis goes wrong and the lawyers begin casting around for parties to sue. GruntDoc notices it being used on an item that plainly is for diagnostic purposes (Feb. 6).

That’s a legally-driven warning formula, of course, intended to repel the specter of liability lawsuits if a diagnosis goes wrong and the lawyers begin casting around for parties to sue. GruntDoc notices it being used on an item that plainly is for diagnostic purposes (Feb. 6).

2 Comments

  • The disclaimer in this particular instance may actually be quite accurate. It accompanies a CD of X-ray images and a viewer. My experience with radiologists tends to prove that they do everything in their power not to make a definitive diagnosis of anything. All they do is raise possibilities. Read an X-ray report and you will see what I mean. Some pretty nifty high-stepping.

  • Maybe if you were waiting to pounce like Michael Jackson at a 6th grade birthday party they’d be more willing to be more definitive?