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Hindsight Bias

Leonard Berlin1

1 Department of Radiology, Rush North Shore Medical Center, 9600 Gross Point Rd., Skokie, IL 60076; and Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL 60612.



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  		Fig. 1A. —55-year-old man who underwent chest radiography during routine physical examination. Posteroanterior (A) and lateral (B) radiographs show what was interpreted by defendant radiologist as normal findings. It was later alleged that the radiologist missed 3-cm tumor in anterior mediastinum.

 


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  		Fig. 1B. —55-year-old man who underwent chest radiography during routine physical examination. Posteroanterior (A) and lateral (B) radiographs show what was interpreted by defendant radiologist as normal findings. It was later alleged that the radiologist missed 3-cm tumor in anterior mediastinum.

 


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  		Fig. 1C. —55-year-old man who underwent chest radiography during routine physical examination. Posteroanterior (C) and lateral (D) chest radiographs obtained 3.5 years after A and B show large tumor mass, diagnosed as malignant thymoma.

 


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  		Fig. 1D. —55-year-old man who underwent chest radiography during routine physical examination. Posteroanterior (C) and lateral (D) chest radiographs obtained 3.5 years after A and B show large tumor mass, diagnosed as malignant thymoma.

 

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