Reducing CT Malpractice Risk: Simple, But Not easy?
Malpractice risk is part of practicing medicine, and although radiologists are less likely than most physicians to be hit with malpractice claims, radiologists still have a 50% likelihood of being sued by the time they turn 60.But there are concrete ways to minimize the risk, according to Dr. Jeffrey Mendel of Tufts University School of Medicine, who spoke on the topic at last month's International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT.
"Only the mediocre are at their best every day," Mendel said. "And since none of us are mediocre, none of us will be at our best all the time, so we have to build systems into our practices to keep us performing at the highest level."
ISCT's Dr. Rubin Issues Challenge To Image Processing Firms
Advances in image processing have given radiologists new tools to find the abnormalities they're looking for. But Dr. Geoffrey Rubin believes that radiologists need better tools -- and quickly -- before they drown in a flood of data being produced by the new generation of CT scanners.
That's according to a talk he gave at the 2014 International Symposium on Multidetector-Row CT (MDCT 2014). Rubin is a professor of cardiovascular research, radiology, and bioengineering at Duke University, and he is also program director of the International Society for Computed Tomography (ISCT), which hosted MDCT 2014 earlier this month in San Francisco.
MDCT Live Stream Around The World
Faculty and Residents from CMIVs (Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization) virtual reality theater watch the live stream of the 16th Annual MDCT Symposium from Sweden! The theater is located in the center of CMIV and can take over the CT and MRI modalities from this room and scan live. Faculty at CMIV use the virtual reality theater for anatomical lecturing for the medical students, "virtual dissections" with the patient in the scanner.