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Doctor here. Agree with this. Plus, when requesting an imaging study, we provide the patient’s history and list of differential diagnoses. The radiologist looks at the X-rays in that context.

Interpreting X-rays in isolation has little relevance to actual clinical practice.

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Exactly. Everyone laments issues with provider shortages and resource issues, but when the people doing the work optimize their strategies to get through their work faster, we get dumb articles like the NPR one linked above.

As helpful as it is for rads to catch unexpected incidental findings, that's not the point. If I'm waiting on a stat read, I've got specific questions I'm looking to have answered quickly. I literally don't want the radiologist wasting time hunting for random oddities if it delays getting the reads back.

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