iRADiX

Radiology has come a long way since the introduction of X-rays when Wilhelm Röntgen took first "medical" x-ray of his wife's hand on 22 December 1895. The field of radiology has expanded beyond the realms of X-rays with nuclear magnetic resonance and ultrasound wave technology being the major players in modern times. Our attitude towards X-rays has also diversified with development of computed tomography.

With the advancement in technology has come vast expansion in the applications of radiological methods and the huge demand on radiologist to provide the correct diagnosis, sometimes even in most adverse circumstances.

This translates into a heavy burden and responsibility on the radiologists’ shoulder. And ‘to err is human’!

30% of medical law suits in US are related to missed diagnosis!

For the court a clinical examination is no longer sufficient to prove a case: Objective documents are requested, leading to numerous unnecessary examinations.

In the present scenario, the roles and responsibilities of radiologist must change with time.

The referring physicians need a clinical interface with radiology. For this, the radiologist should fully understand the clinical problem.

And the radiologist is expected to do this for every clinical problem and for all medical specialities!

Buyer’s Guide: How to buy a good Ultrasound Scanner.

After spending a decade in medical college and acquiring the much sought after degree of M.D. Radio-Diagnosis a young radiologist has two options:

1. Go and join some Job.
2. Start his own Clinic.

First option is relatively easy one and one does not have to worry about finances and other problems like getting the patients and buying Machines.

Second option is difficult preposition, as one has to face the problem of arranging the finances and buying the equipments which can be a tiring phase during the initial months.

It is that period when you finally decided to open a centre for yourself and started looking for Machine after arranging a site for your clinic. You send a signal and the representative of various companies start a bee line to you. They give you so many options, that you get confused. Every one will speak a language which you will find either Greek or Latin. This is not you have studied in your degree. There are so many confusing terms developed by individual companies to confuse customer. Like cross beam technology, Matrix probes or Aplipre, Advance Dynamic Flow, Quick view & Iassist etc.