Repetitive?

[JoshuaR]

I'm curious if practicing radiologists find their work repetitive in any way. When I listen to people talk about, say, a 50-hour work week, I am curious how that time is spent.

So if I take a 50 hour work week, over 5 days that is 10 hours a day. So if you show up at 8am and leave at 7pm (if you take an hour's lunch), how do you spend that time?

Is it 100% reading images? How else are you spending time? Is just the reading different enough and interesting enough to keep you engaged?

Are you in an academic setting? Do you offset reading time with teaching and research?

Do You ever worry about the variety in your daily life? Or is there a lot of variety? Do you figure it's the same regardless of specialty and not inherent in radiology (that you'd be just as bored/not bored in EM/FP/peds/surg/etc vs radiology)?

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[MrBurns10]

I'm only just starting out so I can't answer all your questions, but to address a few of them:

1. You'd never, ever get an hour for lunch in a private practice. More like 5-10 minutes if you don't eat while working.

2. Radiology is definitely repetitive...but every specialty is. How else are you going to become an expert at what you do? But remember that every case is different and every case is a potential lawsuit, so you have plenty to keep you engaged. That being said, I imagine it does get tedious.

3. PP docs may read 100% of the time or their day may be broken up by a procedure here and there. Or the setup may be read 100% of the day and do mostly procedures another day. It all depends on the practice setup. Academic radiologists will also be doing teaching if they're on a clinical day. Research and the like is usually done on academic days, which is usually one day per week for full-timers.