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To begin, let us draw a distinction ( if possible) between medical errors and medical malpractice:
Medical Errors are failures of planned medical actions to be completed as intended. Depending upon their severity, etc., these errors may or may not rise to the level requiring compensation for the victim patient.
Medical Malpractice, however, is essentially unreasonable lack of skill. Failure of a physician such as a radiologist (roentgenologist) to exercise that degree of skill and learning commonly applied under all the circumstance in the community by the average prudent reputable plysician with the result of injury to the patient.
Allegedly, about four percent or so of radiologic interpretations (reading of charts) rendered by radiologists in their daily practice contain errors. Fortunately, most of these errors are of such minor degree, or if serious are found and corrected with sufficient promptness, that they do not cause injury to the patients.
Nevertheless, many radiologic errors do cause harm to patients and, as a result, medical malpractice lawsuits are generated by firms like ours.
If it is found by a judge or jury that the radiologist's ( roentgenologist's) diagnostic error was the result of negligence, in other words, a breach of the standard of medical care, the radiologist will be held liable and compensation will be forthcoming or awarded to the plaintiff-victim.
[Borgstede , JP, Lewis,RS, Bhargavan,M, Sunshine,JH/ RADPEER Quality Assurance Program: A Multifacility Study of Interpretive Disagreement Rates/ J. Am. Coll. Radiology (2004)/ 1: 59-65]
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