Agreed, I'm not sure where the OP from TFA is working but around here, radiologists have all been bought out and rolled into Radiology As A Service organizations. They work from home or at an office, never at a clinic, and have zero interactions with the patient. They perform diagnosis on whatever modality is presented and electronically file their work into their EMR. I work with a couple such orgs on remote access and am familiar with others, it might just be a selection bias on my side but TFA does not reflect my first-hand experience in this area.
Interesting - living near a large city, all of the radiologists I know work for hospitals, spending more of their day in the hospital reading room versus home, including performing procedures, even as diagnostic radiologists.
I think it may be selection bias.
> They work from home or at an office, never at a clinic, and have zero interactions with the patient.
Generalizing this to all radiologists is just as wrong as the original article saying that radiologists don't spend the majority of their time reading images. Yes, some diagnostic radiologists can purely read and interpret images and file their results electronically (often remotely through PACS systems). But the vast majority of radiology clinics where I live have a radiologist on-site, and as one example, results for suspicious mammograms where I live in Texas are always given by a radiologist.
And as the other comment said, many radiologists who spend the majority of their time reading images also perform a number of procedures (e.g. stereotactic biopsies).
Holy shit why did I waste my time in tech.
I could have just gone to med school and never deal with layoffs, RTO, etc.