My wife is an ER doctor. I asked her and she said she talks to the radiologists all the time.
I also recently had surgery and the surgeon talked to the radiologist to discuss my MRI before operating.
My wife is an ER doctor. I asked her and she said she talks to the radiologists all the time.
I also recently had surgery and the surgeon talked to the radiologist to discuss my MRI before operating.
I'd clarify if her "all the time" means a couple of times a week. For 99.9% of cases an ER doctor would just read what the radiologist wrote in the document.
It's sort of like saying "sometimes a cab driver talks to passengers and suggests a nice restaurant nearby, so you can't automate it away with a self-driving cab."
Not an ER physician, but as a paramedic that spent a lot of time in the ER, it depends. Code 3 trauma/medical calls would generally have portable XR brought to the ER room, waiting for our arrival with the patient. In those cases, the XR is taken in the room, not in the DI (diagnostic imaging) wing, and generally the interaction flow will be "XR sent by wifi to radiologist elsewhere, who will then call the ER room and review the imaging live, or very quickly thereafter (i.e. minutes)", because of the emergent need, versus waiting for report dictation/transcription.
She said that all the time means more than 1 out of 100 reads but less than 5. It also takes longer for them to discuss a read than it does for them to do the read.
She also said that she frequently talks to the them before ordering scans to consult on what imaging she’s going to order.
> It's sort of like saying "sometimes a cab driver talks to passengers and suggests a nice restaurant nearby, so you can't automate it away with a self-driving cab."
It’s more like if 3/100 kids who took a robot taxi died, suffered injury, had to undergo unnecessary invasive testing, or were unnecessarily admitted to the hospital.