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nosed with bronchitis. When plaintiff
worsened over the following weekend, the physician recommended chest x-rays at the emergency room to rule out pneumo- nia. The emergency room visit took place on a weekend evening at a time when the hospital’s radiology department was not staffed. The hospital’s procedures called for the emergency physician to interpret
the x-ray at the time of the patient’s visit, a radiologist was to overread the film the following morning and the radiologist’s report was supposed to be sent back to the emergency room. If there was any discrepancy between the two interpreta- tions, or if any follow-up action was recommended by the radiologist, the emergency room physician then on duty was supposed to notify the patient. During the patient’s emergency room visit, the emergency physician told the pa-
tient that his chest x-ray was normal but prepared a report stating “negative-large left (?)” lymph node. The radiologist’s x-ray report stated “there is very minimal fullness of the left hilum which probably represents vascular structures rather than lymphaden- opathy” and concluded that the x-ray was probably normal. The radiologist, in his report recommended a repeat chest x-ray in one to two months to rule out any pro- gression of the fullness in the effected area of the left lung.
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