How would you handle a request to sign a cardiac MRI outside your reporting scope?

Instruction: Give a clear response to the request and arrange a concrete plan that matches the clinical urgency without presenting a limited review as a complete interpretation.

Context: A complex congenital cardiac MRI awaits reporting in this fictional service. The patient is clinically stable and has a specialist clinic appointment tomorrow. You are a general diagnostic radiologist who does not independently report this examination. A manager asks you to sign today to clear the queue; the cardiac radiologist can review it in the morning.

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I cannot provide a defensible specialist report for this examination, and the queue target does not change that. I would say, “This needs the cardiac reader. Let’s reserve tomorrow’s review and make sure the clinic has the result before the consultation.”...

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