Written by Bob Wachter, chair of medicine at UCSF.
Nothing appears to be particularly new. Well, rough article summary: due to the advent of PACS and increased workloads, other physicians don't meet with radiologists to discuss images as they would have in the past. In addition, radiologists really don't want to be bothered by specialists and ED docs intruding on their workday, mainly as a function of large lists of studies that need to be read.
Radiologists also run the real risk of having their jobs shipped to Mumbai for 1/10th the cost of US-trained radiologists.
The author also predicts that pattern recognition computer software and algorithms will upend medicine and radiology.
https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/10/25/technology-radiology/
Nothing appears to be particularly new. Well, rough article summary: due to the advent of PACS and increased workloads, other physicians don't meet with radiologists to discuss images as they would have in the past. In addition, radiologists really don't want to be bothered by specialists and ED docs intruding on their workday, mainly as a function of large lists of studies that need to be read.
Radiologists also run the real risk of having their jobs shipped to Mumbai for 1/10th the cost of US-trained radiologists.
The author also predicts that pattern recognition computer software and algorithms will upend medicine and radiology.
https://ww2.kqed.org/futureofyou/2016/10/25/technology-radiology/
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