Arjun K.

I recently made a quick trip to Bhopal to speak at the 14th annual telemedicon conference. An excellent experience! First, it is a multidisciplinary conference and so one gets to engage with physicians from all ot specialties, and the level of interaction is therefore more varied than at a pure radiology meet. Secondly the common

I have always been a fan of music and this extends to my workspace. I feel that listening to music while I work aids my skills as a radiologist and allows me to perform better. When it’s busy, I favour relaxing jazz or light pop or even classical music and when it’s slow, peppy rock

RSNA has just concluded – some of the highlights for me. 1, Much smaller attendance from the US. US radiologists seem to not see much value in attednding RSNA. They dislike the infringment on their Thansgiving weekend, also the chicago winter cold, and the fact that it is a large and impersonal conference. Most would

An unfortunate recent trend in Indian healthcare has been the derecognition of a number of radiology training centers by the National Board of Medical Examiners, including some prestigious ones which have been conducting radiologist training for over 20 years. This has resulted in a decrease of about 40-50 seats or radiology graduates per annum, by

One of my favorite pastimes in recent days has been watching the medical television show House, along with my 17 year old daughter, herself an optimistic and bright-eyed medical school aspirant. Although there are some things about this show that are comical (if that be the appropriate term) from a medical standpoint, there is also

The legendary radiologist Ben Felson was known for saying that he learned more radiology from following up on his interesting cases than by any other means. The equally legendary physician Sir William Osler paraphrased this by his statement that to learn medicine without textbooks would be to sail an uncharted sea, but to learn medicine

I recently attended a workshop by Marshall Goldsmith – the author of the world famous book “What got you here won’t get you there”. The two hour workshop held at IIM Bangalore was profoundly instructional and hugely entertaining, a result of the incredibly spontaneous and often self deprecating humor of the speaker and his ability

Indian Healthcare spending has increased at an annual growth rate of 10%. In spite of the increased expenditure, India spends only 4.2% of its GDP on Healthcare against the global expenditure of 9.4%. There is a personnel resource gap with a doctor patient ratio of 1:1500 against the WHO recommended 1:600. 75% of qualified doctors

On the flip side, the fun part of doing client visits is meeting our clients! Especially fun for me is my habit of going into emergency rooms of hospitals we cover in the middle of the night (or at least in the late evening) and meeting the ED physicians we actually work with, many of

A large part of my time as chief radiologist of a Teleradiology group goes into report quality assurance review and analysis. This is a very challenging task that involves wearing many different hats at the same time a) Radiologist- there is a need to review and objectively analyze the images for myself and determine whether