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Error: Using Directional Terms From the Viewer's Position

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Directional terms describe the patient's body, never the position of the person looking at it.

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A lesion on the patient's left appears on the viewer's right, and is recorded as left.

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This error reverses sides in a record, which is how procedures reach the wrong limb.

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