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Case 3

During the peak working hour in the A&E department, a lady of 37 years of age attended for a lumbo-sacral spine examination. The radiographer asked for her latest menstruation period during positioning and was told it was over 28 days ago. The radiographer asked the patient to confirm whether she was pregnant or not. He informed her of the risk of undergoing the examination and the patient verbally agreed to have the exam. Since the queue outside was long and everything was set, he asked the lady to stay behind afterwards to sign the consent form and then took the exposure. After that, he went to prepare the consent form but he found that the patient was gone.