An intern in a hospital reads an image from an X-ray and gives the patient a diagnosis. The image is hard to read, and the intern’s supervisor figures out that the diagnosis was wrong. Which type of medical error has occurred?

The error occurred when the intern misread the X-ray image and made an incorrect diagnosis. That is an imaging error, not equipment failure or a medication error. The correct choice is imaging error.

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