Is there a way to send Dr. DeSmet an email of your x-rays without having to send a hard copy to Belgium? It always seems that people are getting opinions from him and I wondered if they were sending him their x-rays by snail mail and he was responding via email or if you can somehow email him directly. Please let me know if you know this process works. Thanks.
Note by Patricia Walter:
Pat has a link here how to convert x-rays to digital x-rays here:
http://www.surfacehippy.info/xrayconversion.php (http://www.surfacehippy.info/xrayconversion.php)
Marco - sorry I changed your post by placing a link to my instructions for converting an x-rays to digital format. Normally my website has the same information as Vicky's. If you can't find it, the index is a great place to look since I have over a 1000 pages on the website listed on Google along with 400 more for hip stories along with over 5000 for the Hip Talk Discussionn Group posts http://www.surfacehippy.info/sitemap.php (http://www.surfacehippy.info/sitemap.php) You can also do a Google search from the end of the right column.
When you convert the x-ray, make the largest horitzontal or verticle side about 600 pixels. Try not to make it too large or it won't send well.
Also most of the digital x-rays I get now all have a converting software with them if you put the disc into your computer and check it out.
You can also take real x-rays and hold them up to the window and take a digital photo of them. You need a light source and light from a window not in direct sun does work. That is how I took photos of my original x-rays in 2006.
If you wanted to send them via snail mail, just email Dr. De Smet and ask the correct address to use. He normally answers all his emails.
I hope that helps.
Pat
I think my question was confusing. I understand how to email x-rays but what I wasn't clear about was how I go about getting Dr. DeSmet's email address? Does he give it out to anyone or just patients of his own?
Thanks.
Amy
Hi Here is his contact info from the surgeons list and he does answer his own email:
Dr. Koen De Smet
3200 Hip Resurfacings to date ***
ANCA Clinic
AMC-Gent
Krijgslaan 181
9000 Ghent
BELGIUM
Phone: +(1)32 9 2525903
Fax: +(1)32 9 2526457
+1 for USA & Canada:
E-mail: helpdesk@heup.be
ANCA Clinic Website
http://www.hip-clinic.com/en (http://www.hip-clinic.com/en)
All the surgeons contact information is listed here:
http://www.surfacehippy.info/listofdoctors.php (http://www.surfacehippy.info/listofdoctors.php)
Hope that helps.
Pat