VICTORIA – The B.C. government is investigating its third incident of problems with diagnostic medical imaging, this time at a hospital in Comox.
An unnamed radiologist at St. Joseph's General Hospital has had his privileges to read CT scans suspended after "significant errors" were discovered, the health ministry announced Monday. The diagnostic scans are used to detect cancer and heart conditions.
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