Here's an interesting point - radiologists have been sued for malpractice if they've missed a lesion in, say, a lung, while diagnosing the requested (and different) part of the body - abdomen, let's say.
So, a TSA screener who has medical experience (radiographer, doctor, nurse, failed med student...) may be exposed to a potential lawsuit if a traveller goes through and there is a detectable lesion visible in the image, that is not then acted upon...
I'll have to show some of these images to my chest radiological colleagues - given the spread of TB recently, I have to wonder if it is detectable in images like these - something else for DHS/INS/CDC to get their teeth into?
Or maybe this is just the fine point of a wedge strategy for universal health screening - for frequent travellers...
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Here's an interesting point - radiologists have been sued for malpractice if they've missed a lesion in, say, a lung, while diagnosing the requested (and different) part of the body - abdomen, let's say.
So, a TSA screener who has medical experience (radiographer, doctor, nurse, failed med student...) may be exposed to a potential lawsuit if a traveller goes through and there is a detectable lesion visible in the image, that is not then acted upon...
I'll have to show some of these images to my chest radiological colleagues - given the spread of TB recently, I have to wonder if it is detectable in images like these - something else for DHS/INS/CDC to get their teeth into?
Or maybe this is just the fine point of a wedge strategy for universal health screening - for frequent travellers...