Are you lonely when you are reading studies?

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I am curious about the work environment of a radiologist. Is it typical to be alone when reading? Do you ever find it lonely to be reading for long periods of time with no one to talk to?

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This is actually one thing I considered about call in residency. Not that I need someone looking over my shoulder. Just having a fellow resident around would be nice overnight. The smaller residencies can't provide that.
 
med2928 said:
I am curious about the work environment of a radiologist. Is it typical to be alone when reading? Do you ever find it lonely to be reading for long periods of time with no one to talk to?

thanks
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We don't throw a party in our reading room.

It depends on practice set up. In some practices you talk to referring physicians and to other rads regularly and frequently. In other practices, you are pigeonholed into reading images.
 
No this is not an issue. You're constantly bombarded with techs bringing in studies and protocols all night, teams wanting to go over images, calling and paging for wet reads. You will learn to cherish every. Single. second. of isolation you get on call.
 
You're going to develop such an anger in the pit of your stomach after the third time the phone has interrupted you during a routine CT ab/pelvis that you're going to have to find some way to cope with it. I've found humor the best relief.

Oh, and I guess what I'm saying is that you're going to wish you were isolated.
 
tco said:
You're going to develop such an anger in the pit of your stomach after the third time the phone has interrupted you during a routine CT ab/pelvis that you're going to have to find some way to cope with it. I've found humor the best relief.

Oh, and I guess what I'm saying is that you're going to wish you were isolated.
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The worst is when you get 3 "I have a quick question..." calls back to back in the middle of comparing nodules on a nodule follow up...
 
maxxor said:
The worst is when you get 3 "I have a quick question..." calls back to back in the middle of comparing nodules on a nodule follow up...
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"Can I get a quick prelim" on that brain MRI?

Or when you pick up the phone and they basically immediately start spouting off the MRN like you were just sitting there with the PACS open and ready to type in numbers because you've got nothing better to do.
 
Are there always people around? At night? During weekends?

Im just curious if rads would read for 10hrs alone in a dark room without seeing a single person.
 
med2928 said:
Are there always people around? At night? During weekends?

Im just curious if rads would read for 10hrs alone in a dark room without seeing a single person.
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I mean there will always be people in the hospital. There will be surgery, medicine, emergency residents always around who ordered the study. Whether or not they stop by to look at an image or just look at it themselves depends on the relationship between departments.
 
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