Berlin Leonard, Sosna Jacob, Halevy Dan
1 Department of Radiology, Skokie Hospital, 9600 Gross Point Rd, Skokie, IL 60076.
2 Departments of Radiology, Rush University and University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.
AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2017 Feb;208(2):241-244. doi: 10.2214/AJR.16.16804. Epub 2016 Nov 3.
The purpose of this article is to present an example of a non-U.S. lawsuit in which a radiologist was found negligent in the case of a psychiatric patient who died by suicide after reading a radiology report sent directly to him.
Although the lawsuit and its outcome do not influence laws in the United States or any country other than the one in which the case was tried, it should stimulate the radiologic community into giving serious thought to the format and manner in which reports of radiologic examinations are communicated to patients.
