Radiology Then and Now

What four decades changed in radiology, and what it quietly cost

In this Voices of Experience webinar, Dianne Keen is joined by four people whose careers span the change: Barbara F. Rubel and Patricia Kroken of MSN Healthcare Solutions, Emily R. Groce of the Medical University of South Carolina, and Dr. William Beckett, a neuroradiologist in private practice in Dothan, Alabama. The brief is deliberately wide: what the work was like early on, what it is like now, and which of the two is actually better.

The technology is the spine of the conversation but not the point of it. The panel keeps returning to what the speed took away: the referring physician who used to walk down to the reading room, the vocabulary that survived the darkroom, and the professional relationships that outlasted every system any of them has been made to learn.