[The Cajun]

The good enough way to have done it would be for the "good" doctor to say, "We shot a X-ray of her lungs, found a spot and due to her symptoms began treating her with antibiotics to which she's responding well".

Maybe the politicos decided this wasn't a good enough explanation and wanted to have something more elaborate put out to the press.

The "good" doctor than ventured out of her field of expertise with a "not performed" elaborate test she really didn't understand the mechanics of totally and blew it.

We'll see if this too blows up in their face, hopefully it does.

[TigersEye]

That sounds like a very fair, even generous, explanation. My father was a GP though and I’m fairly certain there is no excuse for even a GP in a boring rural practice to be ignorant of the basics of what are fairly ordinary tests.