A guide to medical etiquette: radiology

At your interview for medical school (if you were interviewed) when you said why you wanted to be a doctor (if you were asked) it may be that you said, “I want to work in dark rooms away from patients starting at bright shiny boxes.” However, I guess that few of you said any such thing. None the less, people change, aspirations grow, and no doubt some of you will become radiologists.

Radiology is a modern specialty. Modern in …