http://www.appliedradiology.com RSS Feed on Applied Radiologyhttp://www.appliedradiology.com//Issues/2006/09/Editorials/Editorial--The-march-of-technology-in-the-radiology-workplace--Are-we-getting-trampled-.aspxI am now officially old enough to be nostalgic. As a resident, fellow, and junior faculty member, I was content to sit at the view boxes, put up my films, dictate into a tape recorder, and place the films back in the patient’s film jacket; possibly the correct jacket. I answered one telephone on the wall. I had a beeper with no text. True, roughly 20% of “my” films never made it to me to be interpreted. Previous films were available in the film folder about 70% of the time. The transcriptionist occasionally invented new words and “rhabdomyosarcoma” once became, “rather mild sarcoma.” Another time “the patient was prepped and raped in the usual fashion.” The final reports typically got to the chart in 3 to 5 days...Tuesday, 05 Sep 2006 10:02:38 GMT