If you’ve been fortunate enough to keep a job over the past few years, you’re probably doing the work of two or three employees. Increased workload has become a common practice in the American workplace. With less staff and resources the “lucky” people who’ve kept their jobs have been forced to do more work.
It may be a fact of life in our society today, but there are jobs that are at a greater risk of being negatively impacted by increased workloads. For instance, would you want a radiologist who’s interpreting the results of potentially life threatening medical scans to be overworked? It’s not likely. But that’s exactly what’s happening today according to a recent editorial published in the Applied Radiology journal.
The role of radiologists has grown significantly for a number of reasons:
Growing number of patients
An aging and generally sicker population
Greater paranoia about malpractice claims
The reasons may seem less significant when you think about the problems that can occur when radiologists have increased workloads. The interpretation quality and accuracy of medical scan reading can be negatively impacted. But there is a solution – implementing second reads or second opinions on a routine basis.
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