Case study - Radiology, An Elusive Foreign Body.
Mother brings her son into the ED (emergency department) stating that he may have inhailed a small building block. Doctors at the ED took a chest x-ray, as is normal in these situations. nothing was found and the two were sent home. A while later the son developed right lower lobe pneumonia, the mother brought him back in to the ED. After another x-ray, and nothing. they were discharged. This happened at least five times, each time the x-rays results were not recorded correctly. when looked at for a sixth time, all the x-rays this time, a small foreign body was discovered. After a surgery a small lump of plastic was removed. bottom line is the mother filed for a claim against the hospital. The hospital's possition was undefendable, so a settlement for an average ammount was quickly reached.
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