Prosecutors successfully argued that the patient would not have died if clinicians had ordered a routine CT exam. 

“I’ve been a lawyer for 40 years now, and I’ve never heard of a malpractice verdict like this,” the plaintiff attorney said. 

UPDATED: Numerous studies have explored artificial intelligence's use in imaging, but researchers rarely take radiology’s complex work environment into account, experts noted.

Anecdotal reports indicate that radiologists are struggling to keep up with rising demand, but researchers sought to better quantify this crisis. 

MDView also has inked a new partnership with Modern Teleradiology to provide second opinion reports and video consultations to its users.

“It is our firm belief that such a classification does a disservice to patients," the American Society of Neuroradiology, Society for Interventional Radiology and others wrote recently. 

The study also unearthed a correlation between such changes and symptom-specific brain networks related to impaired cognition, sense of smell and fatigue. 

A nurse punctured the 68-year-old patient's lung with a feeding tube in 2018, and radiologist Louis Jacobs, MD, subsequently failed to spot the injury on X-ray.