“They were fighting to do the job well, even though the conditions had become rough,” Lizzy Rainey, with Franciscan Health in Lafayette, Indiana, said Friday.

Stepping into the fray on broad societal issues “takes physicians into realms where they have no expertise—and thus risks eroding public trust in the medical profession,” a distinguished physician suggests.

Barriers such as time and a lack of education credits are keeping imaging physicians from getting the full benefit of these meetings, experts reported in European Radiology. 

Radiology experts recently detailed the case of a 50-year-old male admitted to an ED with unexplained CNS disfunction and cerebral edema. 

The authors suggest requiring drugmakers, hospitals and doctors to refund CMS and/or making pharma companies right-size drug containers.

One imaging physician with the National Health Service said the speciality comes into contact with all COVID-19 patients and that the government has forgotten about workers such as herself.

The findings raise questions about imaging overutilization, Emory University radiology experts wrote in JACR. 

The results, noted researchers with the universities of Toronto and Ottawa, could have important implications for future COVID-19 outbreaks.