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Radiologists, here, mostly sit at home, read scan and dictate reports. They rarely talk to other doctors and talking to a patient is beyond them. They are some of the specialists with the best salary.

With interventional radiologists and radio-oncologists it's different but were talking about radiologists here...

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I'm a radiologist and spend 50% of my time either talking to patients or other clinicians.

You practice in Québec ? If so I am quite surprised, because my wife had a lot of scans and we never met a radiologists who wasn't a radio-oncologist. And her oncologist never talked with the radiologists either. The communication between them was always through written demands and reports. And the situation is similar between her neurologist and the radiologists.

By the way, even if I sound dismissive I have great respect for the skills required by your profession. Reading an IRM is really hard when you have the radiologist report in hand and to my untrained eyes it's impossible without it!

And since you talk to patients frequently, I have an even greater respect of you as a radiologist.

My wife’s an ER doctor and she talks to radiologists all the time.

I also recently had surgery and the surgeon consulted with the radiologist that read my MRI before operating.

Then it's an organizational problem (or choice) in the specific hospital where my wife is treated/followed and I apologize to all radiologists that actually talk to peoples in a professional capacity!

Or maybe it's related to socialized Healthcare because in the article there is a breakdown of the time spent by a radiologists in Vancouver and talking to patients isn't part of it.

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