From your friendly malpractice lawyer – 5 Holiday Tips To Keep You From Being an Emergency Room Malpractice Victim. Here’s one:
If you have x-rays, an MRI scan or a CAT scan, ask whether the attending radiologist has read the films. Do not rely on the radiology resident in the emergency room to read the films. “Oh, but the attending isn’t in now, he reads it the next day.” No good. If the attending radiologist isn’t available, ask the emergency room doctor to read the films himself.
Not true. There are times where I’ll take a radiology resident reading over an ER attending.
