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Moore’s Law for radiologists

AuntMinnie

Most radiologists have heard of Moore’s Law. A close colleague observed that radiologists are affected by a type of Moore’s Law. The amount of scans a radiologist is expected to shift per day is increasing year on year. Today’s radiologist is expected to shift work at an eye-watering rate. Paul McCoubrie, MBBS.

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Key interventions cut delays for MRIs performed on sedated patients

AuntMinnie

A team led by Aric Lee, MBBS, of National University Hospital in Singapore found that relatively straightforward initiatives such as workflow standardization and preadmission patient counseling cut delays for these types of exams by more than 30%. The hospital performs 32,000 MRI exams per year.)

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Meet the Minnies 2024 finalists

AuntMinnie

He has written on abdominal imaging in more than 500 scientific publications, book chapters, and textbooks. Louis School of Medicine and completed his residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dempsey began working in radiography at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby, Pennsylvania.

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The Negativity Tendency

Ben White

In his follow-up book, Factfulness , Rosling discusses the fact that almost all “news” by definition is bad news. Do you hear about the patients who recover uneventfully in the hospital? As a radiologist, I only hear about my misses. One could summarize: things can be bad but still be improving. Trajectories matter.

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Erika Pace & Matthias Eberhard appointed Junior Deputy Editors

European Radiology

The European Radiology Editorial Team is excited to intoduce their new Junior Deputy Editors. Erika Pace is a pediatric oncoradiologist with clinical and academic commitments at the Royal Marsden Hospital and Institute of Cancer Research in London. He has authored about 100 scientific papers and book chapters.

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Radiology Partners Enters the Lending Business

Ben White

Note: I’ve heard a similar story independently from several different RP radiologists. To my knowledge, nobody has pressed RP on this issue yet, and it has not been discussed in any public forum other than a brief mention on this site earlier this year where I was quoting a former RP radiologist. Let’s discuss.

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United against Radiology Partners

Ben White

The suit alleges that Singleton, a small group in Houston that RP bought in 2014, had an especially lucrative contract dating back to 1998 for ~6x Medicare rates “to practice at two local hospitals.” For more context, according to RP’s recent 10-year anniversary press release , RP employed ~3300 radiologists in 2022. (So…1/3

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