The images and the report are separate
You can ask another radiologist to read the same images. You do not always need another scan. A useful second opinion starts with the original DICOM images, not only the PDF report or a photo of a screen.
Situations where it helps
- Surgery or an injection has been recommended and you want that confirmed.
- The report says “normal” but your symptoms are severe or getting worse.
- The first scan was done on an older scanner, or without the sequence your specialist expected.
- An incidental finding is being used to justify a large extra investigation.
What to send
Ask the first clinic for the images on disc or a download link, plus the full report. A second clinic can often review them without repeating the scan. If the protocol was wrong for the question, a repeat scan may still be the right next step. That decision belongs to the radiologist, not to a comparison website.