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Right, bc I'm sure lots of people would do 12 plus years of training for the same amt of money that they could get with a PA/CRNA, mid level or nursing or even MBA. Whatever.
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Yes, I already made an exception for procedures.
There have been some attempts to keep procedures within predominantly diagnostic subspecialties, but they could easily all fall under IR (which will probably spin off).
Radiology groups that adopt teleradiology are signing their own death warrants.
Groups that will survive will be providing teleradiology to other groups, not using it to make call easier.
So what's the point with tele rads? Don't you still have to hire rads? So wouldn't it make more sense to hire on site rads? Or is the whole tele rads movement meaning as in foreign or abroad tele rads?
No. I'm not referring to foreign services that can only provide preliminary reads.
Domestically trained radiologists licensed in the states whose studies they read. They can be reading from abroad, but they all complete US residency programs.
They can provide final reads, although as Drizz implied, currently they've been scraping the bottom of the barrel and deliver crappy service.
With the job market right now, they're getting a more talented pool of recruits and improving their business models.
Excuse me being naive but why is working as a tele rad so bad? If US trained peeps are being hired what's so wrong with that? Sorry if the question is stupid.
Excuse me being naive but why is working as a tele rad so bad? If US trained peeps are being hired what's so wrong with that? Sorry if the question is stupid.
You have to work at night only unless you're abroad.
I think people are not going to use telerads for anything except overnights. It's just too much of a problem liabilitywise.
Why is it a liability problem with US licensed teleradiologists?
Obviously groups wouldn't use them for anything else but nights and weekends, but the hospitals are realizing they might as well do it 24/7.
I'm not 100% on how the financial stuff works with technical/professional fees, but teleradiology is clearly able to provide lower costs.
There would need to be onsite IR, but there's no good reason for IR an DR to remain the same specialty.So are you suggesting that there would be no on site rads in hospitals if hospitals went the telerads way? That would not seem practical or logical.
Because the big teleradiology corporations do not offer partnership tracks to their physicians (usually). You're just reading studies. Reimbursement is weird though so I don't have a full handle on how it works yet, but if it were a normal marketplace the answer would be obvious - competition between national companies to keep costs down and profits up.And even if they did that why would it pay less?
They won't unless they really like it.And if it did pay so poorly why would people continue to go into rads then?
There would need to be onsite IR, but there's no good reason for IR an DR to remain the same specialty.
Because the big teleradiology corporations do not offer partnership tracks to their physicians (usually). You're just reading studies. Reimbursement is weird though so I don't have a full handle on how it works yet, but if it were a normal marketplace the answer would be obvious - competition between national companies to keep costs down and profits up.
They won't unless they really like it.
You seem primarily motivated by money. Radiology is probably not your best choice.
Money like with everything is part of choosing a specialty, and reason why rads was so competitive until recently. Take the money out of any competitive specialty and you have primary care. No preaching needed. And reason why rads had a ton of unfilled spots last year - cocnern about market and lower $$$$. No one wants to work like a dog to get paid like primary care. And if I was solely motivated by money which I am not, rads until recently would have been one of the best bang for your buck specialty.
Predicting future salaries is a fool's errand. You are setting yourself up for disappointment.
None of us can really predict anything but discussing it makes sense though IMO.
Good luck.
There would need to be onsite IR, but there's no good reason for IR an DR to remain the same specialty.
Because the big teleradiology corporations do not offer partnership tracks to their physicians (usually). You're just reading studies. Reimbursement is weird though so I don't have a full handle on how it works yet, but if it were a normal marketplace the answer would be obvious - competition between national companies to keep costs down and profits up.
They won't unless they really like it.
You seem primarily motivated by money. Radiology is probably not your best choice.
And one more thing, current radiology condition is bad for new graduates and is still great for senior partners. The trend of events is in great favor of new graduates and is greatly against senior partners. As a result new graduates complain of their current job and seniors talking about doom and gloom of the future. This has resulted in a general negative image of radiology.
I don't have a negative image of radiology (and your guess about me was wrong), just don't think the private groups can continue to compete vs teleradiology for much longer. I agree that the employee model is the future for those who work at large hospitals, but smaller hospitals probably will go with teleradiology.
I agree that jobs will get better in the next few years, but I think you're wrong on the long term trends with teleradiology. Whenever someone says that people are happier talking to a real person in house, they are usually wrong - doesn't particularly matter which field, it is a pattern that has happened many times already and will happen again many times in the future.
If you read my prior post, I clarified my point.
Telerad beats partnership model of radiology and it is more justifiable finacialy for the hospital to give the business to telerad and not the current group.
BUT, telerad is a loser compared to employment model. Rather than giving the money to telerad company and also the expenses of maintaining the telerad system, the hospital admin puts the money in his pocket and gives a better package to radiologist. In the long run, this results in a more stable model with more satisfied everybody. And not surprisingly, it is what is happening now.
If you are doing radiology residency with a dream of doing telerad, it will not grow in the future, IMO.
In pp, clearly it is very important to surgeons to know who is reading their study before operating. I've heard many times from orthopods that this shoulder is probably OK, because the MRI was read by Joe who tends to overcall SLAP tear.
If you read my prior post, I clarified my point.
Telerad beats partnership model of radiology and it is more justifiable finacialy for the hospital to give the business to telerad and not the current group.
BUT, telerad is a loser compared to employment model. Rather than giving the money to telerad company and also the expenses of maintaining the telerad system, the hospital admin puts the money in his pocket and gives a better package to radiologist. In the long run, this results in a more stable model with more satisfied everybody. And not surprisingly, it is what is happening now.
If you are doing radiology residency with a dream of doing telerad, it will not grow in the future, IMO.
In pp, clearly it is very important to surgeons to know who is reading their study before operating. I've heard many times from orthopods that this shoulder is probably OK, because the MRI was read by Joe who tends to overcall SLAP tear.
Heh, "dreams of doing teleradiology"? Not quite. I don't dream, but if I did, I'd hope they'd be better than that...
Planning on academic (ie employment model) or interventional (can't do tele-procedures, at least not yet).
IR can not be replaced by Tele, but can be replaced by vascular surgeons. Good Luck.
in my opinion, radiologists should go to clinicians during rounds and offer their services - even on films that already have a final read. this increase in facetime is big-time value added and results in better patient care and a future for onsite radiologists and puts teleradiology at a disadvantage.
er.. yeah no.i dont think i want "rounds with clinicians"
there are always new scans coming it and i dont want to stand around somewhere waiting to see if people have questions when i could be doing work. if they have questions, they know EXACTLY where to find radiolgoists.
its not like they need to go searching for us like i remember doing when i needed to find where the cardiolgoists were currently at.
I agree, that's the purpose for conferences and tumor boards... Rounding would be inefficient.
Nope graduating 2013. Guess we just have differing opinions.
imo, clinical exam other than vitals is generally pretty useless unless its blantantly obvi like acute abd or some overt neuro deficits thus the importance of radiologists
Not true at all, at least not with the old school guys who knew what they're doing.
My medicine preceptor was one of those old school cardiologists who could get a better diagnosis with just a stethoscope and a physical than most could get with an echo.
There was an art to the physical exam, but it has mostly been lost. Imaging makes a lot of it irrelevant, but don't mistake our relative incompetence at physical diagnosis due to reliance on imaging for a lack of utility in a proper physical.
I'm not really complaining about this shift because it will put bread on my table, but remember that just because you wouldn't be able to diagnose something with a physical alone doesn't mean that no one could.
Oh really?
Might want to check this article out:
Kobal SL, Trento L, Baharami, S, et al. Comparison of hand-carried ultrasound to bedside physical examination. Am Jour Cardiol, 2005; 96: 1002-6
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/16188532/
Medical students with a couple hours training blew away board certified cardiologists in diagnostic accuracy and it wasn't even close.
Obviously I'm on the imaging side here, not saying all of the old guys could out perform an ultrasound, but a few almost could. My point was never that ultrasound isn't the future, just that some people were understating what can be found on a physical exam, mistaking their jack of ability for lack of utility.
It's a bit like John Henry I suppose - just because a few exceptional guys with great training could stand toe to toe with the machine doesn't mean the machine isn't the future.
Expect a similar comparison to show up when image recognition algorithms get better.
The comparison is between people with no training with ultrasound against experienced board certified cardiologists. Put that US in an experienced operator's hands and they'd outperform a stethoscope every single time. The modalities are simply not comparable.
As far as CAD goes, that might be true in the future but probably a few decades away; I have a couple friends doing probably the most cutting edge CAD stuff (Mgh/MIT collab) and they don't think it's even close to ready.
Disagree. For our surgical patients, it often helps a lot to call when we have a patient who has had numerous operations, especially if they're recent, to clarify how exactly someone's anatomy is now configured.newdoc, times have changed bro. When docs have questions they usually just call because it's easier and faster for everybody. Furthermore, computers have made things much easier and everyone can see the scans. Also to be frank it usually isn't necessary for either side to have a lot more information from the other.
It's still vitally important in surgery. "Thickened bowel" on CT can be an anomaly or something physiologic like a peristaltic wave, or it can represent an ischemic segment. Your physical exam is often the way to distinguish the two.imo, clinical exam other than vitals is generally pretty useless unless its blantantly obvi like acute abd or some overt neuro deficits thus the importance of radiologists
There are plenty of things that can't be imaged or imaged well though. Skin changes, pulses, icterus, and the overall big picture of a patient (do they look sick?) are all still very important. We once had someone getting a duplex of the femoral arteries on a guy before they noticed his legs were cold and mottled. Hmmmm.The comparison is between people with no training with ultrasound against experienced board certified cardiologists. Put that US in an experienced operator's hands and they'd outperform a stethoscope every single time. The modalities are simply not comparable.
That's a bad, bad idea. I picked up a foreign body that the radiologist clearly missed, which required a repeat operation. I definitely brought it to his attention, and he acknowledged "Yup, that was a big miss on my part."now, from what i've gathered from my limited clinical and radiology experience.... clinicians only come down to radiology if there is an outside scan to interpret without an official read.... if a clinician looks at a scan that theyve ordered and they see something funny, they think 'hey thats weird, i wonder why radiology didnt comment on that' and, often, they move on. this is bad for learning - i.e. future patients and worse for that patients care.......maybe it was something that the radiologist missed?
That's a bad, bad idea. I picked up a foreign body that the radiologist clearly missed, which required a repeat operation. I definitely brought it to his attention, and he acknowledged "Yup, that was a big miss on my part."