Dear AuntMinnie Member,
Maybe you think you have an impossible stack of work in front of you. But how would you feel if someone dropped 70,000 films onto your desk (or into your workstation) and told you to start reading -- stat?
That's what health authorities in Canada are dealing with after discovering irregularities in the reports of a radiologist working at a hospital in Saskatchewan. The irregularities were serious enough to prompt regulators to order a review of some 70,000 films the radiologist had interpreted, according to an article by staff writer Kate Madden Yee that we're featuring in our Imaging Center Digital Community.
The films are being farmed out across the country, so no single radiologist has to carry the workload, but it's still creating a major hassle. Learn more about the story by clicking here, or visit the community at centers.auntminnie.com.
Coping with the moly crisis
Our next featured story also originates in Canada -- the crisis over molybdenum-99 (Mo-99). When the Canadian nuclear reactor that produces much of North America's supply of the radioisotope went out of service last month, it threw a monkey wrench into the operations of nuclear medicine departments across the continent.
How are nuclear medicine physicians dealing with the shortage, and what can you do to conserve technetium-99m (Mo-99's daughter nuclide and a commonly used radiopharmaceutical) while continuing to offer service to patients and referring physicians? Find out how by clicking here for an article by contributing writer Alexandra Weber Morales in our newly redesigned Molecular Imaging Digital Community.
Also, check back with the community next week for reports from nuclear medicine's showcase conference, the SNM annual meeting, taking place in -- of course -- Canada.
