Can a nurse practitioner read a mri film?!?
Nurse practitioners are not trained to read MRI films. For that matter, even physicians aren’t trained in this, except for radiologists. (Specialists usually do learn to recognize things related to their specialties on MRI films.) The films are evaluated by a radiologist, who writes up a report for the physician. A nurse practitioner may read the report and pass the information on to you, but she’d be giving you info from a report, not from what she sees. If she looks at a film and questions it, she’d check with the physician and/or the radiologist.
