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I’m fascinated. What makes a great radiologist so much better than the average?

• incone123 1y ago
  Calling the edge cases correctly, I would think. I hurt my arm a while back and the ER guy didn't spot the radial head fracture, but the specialist did. No big deal since the treatment was the same either way.
• 71bw 1y ago
  You're specifically trained to look at the scans, and not to do 75 other things as well, only to use scans to aid your whatever you're doing.
• lostlogin 1y ago
  Im not the OP and I’m an MR tech. I rate techs against non-radiology trained physicians in terms of identifying pathology. However techs aren’t anywhere near the ability of a radiologist. Persuading junior techs not to scan each other and decide the diagnosis is a reoccurring problem, and it comes up too often. These techs are trained and are good. I have too many stories about things techs have missed which a radiologist has immediately spotted.