Communication in diagnostic radiology.

INTRODUCTION The radiologist has become increasingly more important to his medical colleagues. He is now able to provide solutions he formerly could not, or did not attempt, and to provide more precise complete or more confident answers than formerly were available. H i s medical colleagues have p w n accustomed to an everwidening variety of radiological examinations. The radiologist and his technicians formerly performed relatively simple, quickly completed examinations and the radiologist interpreted these examinations. Now a progressively larger portion of the radiologist’s time is spent conducting more lengthy compiicated examinations in which he is the indispensable man, while the volume of technician-performed examinations which he continues to interpret ever increases.