Radiologists among the most burned out docs | Tourists likelier to undergo wasteful imaging | Lumexa names chief growth officer

About 45% of radiologists have experienced such workplace exhaustion, which places the specialty fifth among medical professions polled. 

Keith Lynch is taking on the title after previously serving as senior VP of strategy and development at SCA Health, a prominent ambulatory surgery center operator.

“From an operational perspective, these findings have implications for staffing and resource planning in emergency radiology departments serving high-tourism regions."

Leaders with the New York organization hope the project will help improve care coordination for those who need it the most. 

Conavi Medical's new hybrid imaging system simultaneously performs IVUS and OCT.

Two respected radiology organizations have issued a stark warning on the new recommendations, stating that they risk confusing patients and “may contribute to thousands of additional breast cancer deaths each year.”

HB 1364, a bill some radiologists pushed back against, is headed to the Governor’s desk to be finalized. It is set to take effect on Oct. 1. 

"This case reflects a troubling pattern in which payers, dissatisfied with IDR results, increasingly try to attack those outcomes outside the framework Congress created," Rad Partners says. 

Physician burnout rates continue to fall, and the healthy trend comes alongside strong and stable rates of physician job satisfaction.

Of all lawsuits filed against patients in 2024 in one U.S. state, physician practices and other non-hospital healthcare entities accounted for 80% of cases. That’s a complete inversion from just six years prior.