Recent content by shark2000

He can find a job in the same city as your residency program BUT the quality of job may not be good. For example, for a neuroradiologist it is not that hard to find a night job or evening shift job within 40-50 miles of even big desirable areas. However, it is difficult to find an academic job...

After quitting 4-5 jobs in a time frame of 5-6 years, very few decent groups will even consider your application.

Such schedule is only available for a field with SHIFT work and high demand. In none of Surgical fields you can take 6 months off in a row. As a hospitalist you can not take 6 months off in a row. Your best option is to do ED. Work your a$$ off half of the year and take the other half off...

There is not point in talking about your salary. You lose much more than you gain. Never talk about your salary and politics openly in public.

If someone tells you to go home, just go. Don't stay around.

What is your definition of "predominant"?

They don't care. They just want a warm body that does the job.

We still make money out of Xrays. What you bill is different than what you get paid. For example, a hospital bills medicare 100K for a CABG (bundled payment including everything) but it gets paid about 30K-40K, believe it or not.

Your original point may or may not be correct buy is based on false logic.

As a medical student, I think you should at least understand that when n=1 the p value is not significant. On the other hand, I know some people who become interested in IR during residency. Some people may choose IR because they can't do DR all the time or some choose it because of job market.

Not true.

Every test has a pretest probability. If you order a brain MRI in a normal individual with just mild headache even without looking at the images, if you call it normal you are right 99.9 % of the time. I don't say some clinicians are not good at interpreting imaging. I say that many times they...

What is radiology? You wake up very early in the morning on a Saturday because you have to be in the hospital at 6 am. You wear your scrubs, drive to the hospital while drinking 2 cups of coffee in 10 minutes and you curse at yourself the whole time because you have never seen the road that...

A stool test will replace both techniques eventually. It is just a matter of time. - Screening test does not need to be 100% accurate. If a stool test is even 80-85%% accurate, it will replace both techniques. Mammo is only 70% accurate but has not been replaced by breast MRI which is 95%+...

Then why don't you apply to cards or other fields? You have a very negative view of radiology and you should be stupid to even consider radiology.