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Reals professions carve their own path!

Have you seen the draft of the BS core curriculum on the ASRT website? I take offense to the term “professional level”. What does that make the rest of us? Non-professional? Why do we do this to ourselves? I think it is time to quit “going along.” Why do […]

A fantastic program, beautiful area and fabulous, a fabulous hotel all combined to make the annual conference held November 1, 2 and 3 a great success! Now, I know I am the coordinator but I am also a customer. The food was truly to die for (we may in fact die due the […]

I think and think and think of reasons to continue to pay a good chunck of change to an organization that takes more and more away from me all the time. I don’t get the financial strain the ASRT cries about constantly when membership and products grow and grow and grow………

This past Sunday a young player for the Buffalo Bills football team suffered a spinal injury that required routine films, CT, MRI and surgery under fluoro guidance, every step of his treatment included our participation. The fantastic young physicians that are treating him have held two extensive press conferences describing his treatment and condition. […]

In considering the slow progress of the CARE bill (although I understand these things take time) one can only be mystified by the speed with which some other bills get quick action. I have come to realize that it is because the “politicians” get nothing out of the CARE bill passing. It isn’t […]

This endless pursuit of the CARE/RADCARE bills in DC is frustrating. While the big glamorous day RT in DC is fun and makes everyone feel enthusiastic it is probably a less effective method of lobbying than contacting your reps and senators at the local level. This is the time of year when they […]

Hey, I saw a funny Radiologic faux pas the other night when I rented the movie Pursuit of Happiness. For those of you who have not seen it, the main character is employed selling portable bone density machines. In one scene he is shaking the hand of a Doc that just bought a unit. The […]

I wasn’t at all surprised by the report in the New England Journal of Medicine that Computer Aided Detection is creating a lot of follow-up biopsies that are negative. The AP report started with the line “it appears that traditional mammography readers” (I believe they meant human physicians) were more accuarate……
Of course the supporters […]

Hi everyone,
>> I know that in the HOD, I mentioned this technology when I
>> first read about its development. Now that it is here - I want to
>> again bring up the issue of “_applying ionizing radiation to humans_”
>> (which is the way NY has our profession described […]