The cardiovascular care of thousands of Missouri patients is suddenly up in the air. The heart of the issue is a practice's alleged interest in opening up a new private equity-backed clinic.
In particular, rads working in breast imaging and pediatrics appear to notch the lowest rates of career advancement, experts write in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.
Lancaster Radiology Associates and Penn Medicine had together owned both the MRI Group and PET Partnership, operating six centers in the Keystone State.
Clinical guidelines already recommend that these procedures be performed together when applicable. However, researchers noted, it is still not terribly common among today’s surgeons.
If doctors are the heart of the hospital, nurses are surely the soul. And if that’s so, today’s AI has to be something like a nutritional supplement for the brains of the operation.
“For me and my colleagues, it’s not an exaggeration to say that it doubled our efficiency," says radiologist Samir F. Abboud, MD, chief of emergency radiology at Northwestern.
