[M T]

If a physician diagnoses a particular condition partly based on the report from the radiologist of images the physician ordered, but the radiologist altered the images before the physician ever saw them, then the physician is guilty of what?

If the physician doesn't edit/amend/review his/her diagnosis until much later when someone notices the image has been altered, is the physician at fault for not doing it earlier?

Do physicians ever run software to determine if images they've ordered might have been altered?

(I will note that we, or at least I, don't know whether MTL saw the original images or ran software to detect if the images were altered later when they were submitted to the journals.  From what I read in the PubPeer discussions a week or two ago, the creating authors took responsibility for their own images.  It wasn't "unclear". Did you read something different there?)

[M T]

If a physician diagnoses a particular condition partly based on the report from the radiologist of images the physician ordered, but the radiologist altered the images before the physician ever saw them, then the physician is guilty of what?

If the physician doesn't edit/amend/review his/her diagnosis until much later when someone notices the image has been altered, is the physician at fault for not doing it earlier?

Do physicians ever run software to determine if images they've ordered might have been altered?

(I will note that we, or at least I, don't know whether MTL saw the original images or ran software to detect if the images were altered later when they were submitted to the journals.  From what I read in the PubPeer discussions a week or two ago, the creating authors took responsibility for their own images.  It wasn't "unclear". Did you read something different there?)