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So this is just giving you a history of radiology

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and litigation as such.

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I found it very interesting that in 1915, uh,

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the x-rays were first done and right

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after that, now that we had, we were saving,

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archiving those x-rays, uh, medical mal practice,

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radiology lawsuits, uh, uh, peaked.

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And then up to 1970, there was, there was significant

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skyrocketing of these mal practice cases.

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And then that's when defensive medicine,

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especially when it came to radiology, uh, was, was came,

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was the birth of then about 50 years later.

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Then in 1980s, trauma

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and fractures became, uh, a very common source

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for mal practice litigation.

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And then in 1990s, up to right now, one

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of the biggest areas of medical, uh,

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mal practice litigation in radiology are cancers.

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And of this breast and lung are probably, uh, way up there

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because we no lung nodules are missed, which turn our,

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a year later into, into spiculated masses

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or these small punctate calcification are missed on a

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mammogram that turned out

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to be a year later into breast masses.

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So those are two, uh, very important or,

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and common cancers in, uh, in which, uh,

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the litigations are quite common.

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And then, uh, in 2010 to 2015,

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we had some hospitals have issues with radiation, do doses,

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especially while, uh, performing interventional procedures

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or neuro IR procedures.

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Some, uh, hospitals had some faulty equipment that also led

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to, uh, medical mal practice, uh, lawsuits,

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which is also one of the common reasons,

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as you will see in a little bit.