President's page: imaging: not a black and white issue.
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t m f n recent months, conversations about the growth in medcal imaging have become blurred with distortions, even evolving into a debate of whether imaging performed by ardiologists and other highly trained physicians is safe for ur nation’s seniors. All of this is coming from our radiology olleagues. They promise state and federal lawmakers a cash indfall if they would just limit the practice of medical maging largely to one specialty—radiology (1). Now the fate of medical imaging and the ever-important volution of medicine in this country are being debated in tate legislatures, Capitol Hill, in the offices of insurance xecutives, and on the pages of the New York Times and Wall treet Journal. No practice is immune to the attacks on ardiologists’ ability to provide imaging services. This is a ght that affects every one of us, and it is a fight that will ake considerable resources and commitment to eventually in. And we will win. We must win this fight for our patients ho depend on our sound judgment and clinical compeency for their cardiovascular care. The bottom line is that atients deserve optimal care delivered by a qualified proessional, whether it is a radiologist, cardiologist, or any ther trained specialist.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the American College of Cardiology
دوره 45 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005