Doc brings in a CT performed and read at another hospital, uploads it, then calls you to interpret and go over the CT with them. Are we just supposed to do this for free?

Another big IR pet peeve: why consult IR for a procedure without first talking to the patient about said procedure, or even asking if they want it?

They should have a ‘Hospital Politics’ course in med school

When hospitals say they “can’t find coverage,” it usually means they are too cheap to offer enough money.

My favorite day of ‘giving back’…..to the government. Maybe the gov’t can ‘give back’ to my student loans!

Can someone that cares write a blog post about how IR will not become IR hospitalists if they separate from the IR/DR PPs? And preferably not from some ivory tower bubble IR, FSIR with no real world experience.

I love how a patient who fell standing up to quickly and a patient who was in a motorcycle vs car accident get the exact same amount of imaging…

I would love to know who the radiologists are working with CMS to come up with these new quality measures every year…

Speaking of exploiting med students…

Don’t you just love when the CEO of a nonprofit makes over $1mil/yr?

AAMC

Both the medical student rotation and residency application systems are completely unethical and survive solely by exploiting medical students. But hey, those admins gotta get paid, ammm I right!??

PSA: Stop ordering intravenous pyelograms.

Thank you

Who gave my number to locums recruiters? They are blowing up my phone lately.

Anyone have the protocols used for those gimmicky ‘whole body MRIs?’ I’m looking at list of conditions they check for and it includes:

-accessory spleen (who cares)
-absent Kidney (US can also show this)
-adrenal cyst (who cares)
-ankle metastases (wut?)
-atelectasis (who

Imagine sending a pt to the ER and telling them they will have an IR procedure done, without having talked to the doc or department doing the procedure…

I still don’t understand how there are practicing interventional radiologists that don’t know how to use ultrasound.