Applied Radiology, July 1st, 2007
It's interesting that while medical professionals are usually fairly quick to adopt new discoveries in medical science, in diagnosis and treatment they tend to be rather reluctant to change how they do their everyday work. Even in radiology, where we are in the habit of adapting to new technologies in short order, we are much more hesitant to change how we practice the specialty.
For most of its history, radiology has been a 9-to-5 specialty. The field can be attractive because of mostly regular working hours, relative insulation from direct patient contact (which is desirable for many), work...
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