Radiologists are trained medical professionals who specialize in interpreting medical images such as X-rays, CT scans, MRI scans, and ultrasounds to diagnose and treat medical conditions. Despite their expertise, radiologists can occasionally make errors when reading imaging studies due to a variety of reasons. It’s important for healthcare providers and radiologists to understand how these errors occur and what steps they can take to mitigate the risk of error.

In this talk, we explore why and how radiology reports can sometimes be challenging to read and decipher. If you write radiology reports, we’ll help you become better acquainted with some practices that can make your reports easier for others to interpret. If you read radiology reports, we’ll help you develop a better understanding of the things going on behind the scenes that influence how radiology reports get written the way that they do.