Radiology

In this blog series Part 2, I will be sharing key points about knowing your family history of breast cancer.

This month, I will be sharing key points on what you need to know about breast cancer to be your best advocate. 

Does your radiology practice struggle with recruiting quality staff? Have you ever wondered what your recruiter or HR department was thinking when they sent you a resume? Having successfully recruited hundreds of candidates, I can tell you an effective and smooth hiring process happens through a collaborative team approach.

After reading Atul Gawande’s latest book, The Checklist Manifesto.   I have read all three of his books and I find him to be one of the most gifted and outstanding authors around, with fantastic readability and thoughtfulness. I highly encourage giving any of his works a perusal.

I can’t wait to “pinch and drag” to get a better look at potential abnormalities on a mobile screen!

Conventional 2D mammography images the whole breast in one exposure. Two images of each breast at orthogonal angles to one another are then acquired in order to aid the physician in creating a mental 3D picture of the breast. This is to ensure that the doctor is able to extrapolate information from 2D pictures and then subsequently find them in 3D space, in this case, the breast. The Achilles heel of conventional 2D mammography is the ability to find cancer in women with mammographically dense breasts. While it is fairly straightforward to visually detect cancer in a fatty breast, only about 50 percent of cancers will be visible in extremely dense breasts.

I don’t own an iPhone 4S. However, I certainly don’t feel impoverished with my iPhone 4. Yet, I certainly can feel excitement for what the possibilities hold for the future now that Apple has seized upon voice recognition (VR) technology as a potential means to increase our efficiency in these hectic times. Their embrace of this technology solution is a very good thing for the future of radiologists, as they have shown the Midas touch with whatever area of technology they get their hands on.

The more things change, the more they stay the same…an old saying that seems appropriate as we head into 2012.

Over the past several years, the rate at which articles describing, almost alternately, the benefits and risks of screening mammography, seems to have significantly increased. Some of the articles have shed more light on this valuable examination, better defining its role in a women’s health regimen. Others have only further muddied the waters surrounding the somewhat controversial issue of screening mammography. As with any screening examination, there are issues that need to be discussed and better understood by the clinicians and patients who choose to use this tool.