[Kozak]

After you die at your local hospital, you might go to Heaven or you might go to Hell but, before you die, you will go through the Radiology Department first. .... And your estate will get a bill.

But the radiologist reading the studies may be in Australia or Bombay. Radiology is the first medical specialty to be outsourced. As an ER doc, tougher to do, although the 13th Amendment doesn't seem to apply to us so the "bill" part is tricky...

[Polybius]

But the radiologist reading the studies may be in Australia or Bombay. Radiology is the first medical specialty to be outsourced. As an ER doc, tougher to do, ...

That depends on the professional relationships you have established. In my smaller hospital, my docs trust my readings and get nervous even when American trained locums show up.

In any case, I have far more work than I need or want ..... especially from the ER that, as one of our surgeons once griped, too often "get a CT in lieu of doing an H & P."