RSNA: Listen to Berlin's poetic lecture on error disclosure!

CHICAGO—Leonard Berlin, MD, delivered his entire 22-minute annual oration in diagnostic radiology lecture in rhyming verse at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). The speech, titled “To Disclose or Not To Disclose Radiologic Errors—Should 'Patient First’ Supersede Radiologist Self-Interest?” suggested that radiologists were obligated to report patient errors.

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