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Doctors missed crucial signs in patients’ X-rays in fatal lung cancer blunder, Hong Kong hospital bosses admit

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As many as eight doctors missed abnormalities in X-rays in three patients, two of whom were eventually diagnosed with lung cancer, hospital authorities revealed on Friday. Announcing the results of an investigation into the blunder, the Hospital Authority pledged to enhance its system and said it would begin to study the feasibility of artificial intelligence support for staff by the end of the year. In November last year, the authority said it had set up an investigation panel after it found...

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