Ethical standards, moral values and mandates of virtually all professional societies call for full disclosure of medical errors to patients affected by them. However, many radiologists are reluctant to divulge errors because of potential repercussions ranging from simple embarrassment, loss of face or professional standing, to malpractice litigation or restriction of clinical privileges. Nevertheless, divulging the mistake and offering an explanation and apology for it may diminish the patient's pain, assuage the radiologist's guilt and recrimination and strengthen the physicianpatient relationship. All radiologists and non-radiological physicians must always keep in mind that it is their fundamental obligation to act in the best interest of the patient, not in their own personal interest.