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Communication Miscues: Closed Claim Abstract

Published: Dec. 29, 2006, 4:42 p.m.

A lesion noted in a radiologist report was not followed before the patient died from metastatic lung cancer. In this case, communication miscues among an ordering physician specialist, the imaging specialist, and the PCP let the patient and the physicians down.