Rads, hospitals both hit highs and lows, just not same ones

摘要

I spend much of my day hearing success and failure stories from both radiologists and hospital administrators about this turbulent but exciting time in radiology. This experience follows five years of working as a radiologist in private practice, and the two perspectives offer insight into some trends in radiology over time.The 1980s changed radiology with cross-sectional imaging, and the millennium launched the age of teleradiology. A critical difference between these two is that the first change generated more opportunities for onsite radiologists, while the second potentially generated fewer.