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Joan Tomanek, MD

Joan Tomanek, MD completed her residency at the University of Missouri-Columbia and her fellowship at the University of South California-San Diego School of Medicine. She worked for 15 years in private practice before joining vRad in 2019.

How I Eliminated Worklist Pressure and Burnout from My Radiology Career

It’s been two and a half years since I realized the pressures of work had been getting the better of me for too long. I needed to make a change. The prime source of my duress was an unrelenting and constantly expanding radiology worklist.

I’d always loved my work as a radiologist. Getting things right—and fast—for patients and their treating physicians was one of the most satisfying sources of joy in my life. But 15 years into my private practice career with a large, multihospital health system, my worklist was making every day feel simultaneously monotonous and frenetic.