What's Wrong with Radiology

One of the remarkable paradoxes in contemporary American medicine is the presence of a vague but definite malaise surrounding radiologic diagnosis at a time of unparalleled excitement and accomplishment in the development of imaging hardware and techniques. Diagnostic data of previously unimaginable, virtually anatomic precision are now widely available. Yet the satisfaction that might be expected among clinicians and radiologists as a result of the increasingly elegant information made possible by computed tomography, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, and digital subtraction techniques is nowhere apparent. In fact, a fairly solid case could be made for the existence of an inverse relation between . . .