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The state of radiology: Part 1 -- Is practice building dead?

AuntMinnie

"If private practices don't thrive and don't survive, then everyone has to become an employee at some point, and the leverage we have and negotiating power of radiologists goes away." Sixty-six percent of radiologists are working full-time before retirement which means that fully a third are on part-time schedules."

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Image-Guided Epidural Injections for Back Pain

Midstate Radiology Associates

As technology evolved, doctors turned to imaging-guided procedures using computed tomography (CT) or X-ray technology. Considered a minimally invasive procedure, image-guided epidural injections for back pain may be administered at a doctor’s office, surgical center or hospital imaging center.

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Tricuspid Valve Repair with MitraClip

Global Radiology CME

However, minimally invasive methods are starting to gain popularity as the mainstay of treatment. These minimally invasive procedures include heterotopic caval transcatheter valve implantation, transcatheter tricuspid valve annuloplasty, and tricuspid clip placement (MitraClip) [4,5].