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Radiology follow up.

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 […]

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Marshall Goldsmith

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

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Indian Healthcare

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

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Voices to Faces

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

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Quality Assurance

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

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Client Testimonials

When a client says to you “You’re a whole level above anything I’ve previously experienced in Teleradiology” that is positively inspirational. I had this goosebump generating experience recently during my summer visit to the US when I called up the chief radiologist of one of the hospitals we cover in Pennsylvania, Dr Steven Diehl to

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More on France

History and Inspiration derived therefrom Rouen, France. A place of immense history, which is imbued in its every stone and brick. It has the historic spot where St Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake in 1431, now commemorated by a lovely modernistic cathedral and a towering cross, in the Place de Vieux Marche

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Summer US trip

Another summer visit to the US has come to an end and I write this on the flight back home as I reflect on the trip. The trip was a hectic one as they typically tend to be. It began in Philadelphia where it included a resident conference to the residents at Albert Einstein Medical

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Reviewing Radiology Articles

I currently review radiology articles for Radiology journals based in the US, Europe and India respectively. I find the process of reviewing articles to be one of the most interesting and challenging tasks I perform. For one thing, there is a wide range in quality of the proferred articles. Some articles are so creative in

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Delhi Diary

This past week I worked from our Delhi office, which is always such a great pleasure. Run with great zest and enthusiasm by my colleague Dr Anjali Agrawal, who is among the most dedicated academic radiologists whom I have met, it is a small but vibrant place, which exemplifies quality and keen analytics. And to

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