Ben White

Autonomous Driving

10.28.25 // Miscellany

I recently experienced a trial of Tesla’s full self-driving capability for the first time. It was a decent, if bewildering and somewhat spooky experience. It’s unusual to see a computer do a task in the real world that you have been doing—and had to do yourself—for decades.

For some reason, feeling a computer manifesting its judgment and controlling a vehicle in three-dimensional space does feel a little bit different than seeing its capabilities in a chat box. In some ways, it is less impressive, and in others, much more.

Certainly, the current iteration—which requires you to maintain attention on the road—does not fulfill the promise of true self-driving in the sense that you are still, at least in part, the driver of the car and ultimately responsible for it, as opposed to being a front-seat passenger able to do other tasks. And that’s for good reason.

The reality is that, like with human drivers, the issues are always in the edge cases. The average person does not get in a crash after every left turn, and neither do self-driving cars. I was struck by how easy it is to trust, and how willing I was to let the car give it a go. The Tesla did struggle repeatedly in my experience in several locations. It may drive more miles without an accident than the average human driver, but the mistakes it makes currently are also ones that most people would not make:

It gets caught in turn-only lanes or the wrong turning lanes pretty consistently and doesn’t learn from those mistakes. It doesn’t, for example, move over nearly fast enough for a right-hand turn after exiting the highway if there is a long line of cars waiting. More dramatically, in downtown Dallas’s web of one-way streets, it tried to go down the wrong way in a bifurcation into oncoming traffic. It also ran a red light after trailing an 18-wheeler so close that it couldn’t see the traffic light.

That being said, what struck me most is how quickly humans trust—and how rapidly automation bias takes effect simply by virtue of the product being available. There is a serious sense of trust in its capabilities. You see it handle a couple of turns, stop appropriately, go appropriately, and check the blind spot before changing lanes, and suddenly, you believe it can do the real deal. You’re ready to trust it on the road in ways that should frankly be pretty surprising. You begin to resent its incessant demand that you pay attention.

In some post-AGI arguments, some people say that humans like other humans and really want other humans in the loop—but I’m actually not sure that’s the case. Especially not if the lack of humans in the loop means faster service, cheaper service, or more customizable service. Really, every situation could be different, and how you feel about your doctor or your pastor might be different than how you feel about yourself as a car or about cabbies.

But these sorts of shortcomings are probably a matter of time, and the downstream consequences of even just this narrow use are profound and unknowable. I don’t want to opine on American car culture or how cities might deal with fleets of self-driving cars waiting for passengers.

It does make you wonder how high the bar for AI adoption is for any particular task. If we can trust a car so easily, a matter of personal life or death, how fast will the shelf life of human expertise decay in other contexts?

In healthcare, for example, I have seen nothing autonomous that is remotely reliable yet, which is why adoption outside of personal use or low-hanging general LLM fruit—scribing, summaries/impressions, some clinical decision support/brainstorming, etc.—is relatively low other than narrow models flagging stuff like pulmonary emboli or diagnosing a single etiology like diabetic retinopathy. If, with broader tool adoption, we still need a human with hands on the wheel to prevent catastrophe in rare occurrences, then we will need to set up a system carefully to keep that human paying attention and not just going through the motions of looking like they are paying attention in order to placate a monitoring algorithm instead of actually focusing on the road.

The question, as always, becomes: is the purpose to be more efficient, or is the purpose to provide a better product? Those are, as always, in constant tension.

If you search for reviews or commentary on Tesla self-driving, the most common thing you’ll find is frustration that the car won’t let you stop paying attention. Autopilot is frustrating. Driving is fine. Being a passenger is fine. Being in between (other than in stop-and-go traffic) is kinda annoying.

This is likely a temporary problem, and while driving is also different from many people’s jobs, I think it does speak to an underlying human desire: people do not like feeling superfluous. I do not think as a species we will like being forced to rubber-stamp or clock in just for the pretense of being a human in the loop (i.e. drawing a paycheck as liability operator/sin-eater).

Real work is meaningful. Box-checking is soul-sucking, demoralizing, and breeds resentment.

The Laws of Medicine

10.23.25 // Medicine

From The Laws of Medicine, a short book by Siddhartha Mukherjee:

My medical education had taught me plenty of facts, but little about the spaces that live between facts. I could write a thesis on the physiology of vision. But I had no way to look through the fabric of confabulation spun by a man with severe lung disease who was prescribed “home oxygen,” but gave a false address out of embarrassment because he had no “home.” (The next morning, I got an irate phone call from the company that had attempted delivery of three canisters—to a Boston storefront that sold auto parts.)

I had never expected medicine to be such a lawless, uncertain world. I wondered if the compulsive naming of parts, diseases, and chemical reactions-frenulum, otitis, glycolysis—was a mechanism invented by doctors to defend themselves against a largely unknowable sphere of knowledge. The profusion of facts obscured a deeper and more significant problem: the reconciliation between knowledge (certain, fixed, perfect, concrete) and clinical wisdom (uncertain, fluid, imperfect, abstract).

Medicine is a soft science involving the application of limited knowledge amidst uncertainty. Historically, it was wholly unscientific. In the modern era, we apply the philosophy of Karl Popper:

In his 1934 book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, the philosopher Karl Popper proposed a crucial criterion for distinguishing a scientific system from an unscientific one. The fundamental feature of a scientific system, Popper argued, is not that its propositions are verifiable, but that its propositions are falsifiable-i.e., every theory carries an inherent possibility of proving it false. A theory or proposition can only be judged “sci-entific” if it carries within it a prediction or observation that will prove it false. Theories that fail to generate such “falsifiable” conjectures are not scientific. If medicine is to become a bona fide science, then we will have to take up every opportunity to falsify its models, so that they can be replaced by new ones.

Mukherjee posits three “laws”:

LAW ONE
A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weak test.

LAW TWO
“Normals” teach us rules; “outliers” teach us laws.

LAW THREE
For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.

These amount to: 1) The conditional probability of Bayesian reasoning means that bad tests done indiscriminately yield more noise than information. 2) Outliers shouldn’t be ignored, but should be studied. The rare exceptions often drive our discoveries. 3) Cognitive biases are an inescapable part of the human condition.

Regarding medicine as presaged by Lewish Thomas, who in 1983 published the most popular book about the dawn of modern medicine in The Youngest Science:

Thomas would not have predicted this stickiness of uncertainties and constraints; the future of medicine that Thomas had imagined was quite different. “The mechanization of scientific medicine is here to stay,” he wrote optimistically in The Youngest Science. Thomas presaged a time when all-knowing, high-precision instruments would measure and map all the functions of the human body, leaving little uncertainty and even fewer constraints or gaps in knowledge. “The new medicine works,” he wrote. “The physician has the same obligations that he carried, overworked and often despairingly, fifty years ago-but now with any number of technological maneuvers to be undertaken quickly and with precision…. The hospitalized patient feels, for a time, like a working part of an immense, automated apparatus.

He is admitted and discharged by batteries of computers, sometimes without even learning the doctors’ names. Many patients go home speedily, in good health, cured of their diseases…. If I were a medical student or an intern, just getting ready to begin, I would be more worried about this aspect of my profession. I would be apprehensive that my real job, taking care of sick people, might soon be taken away, leaving me with the quite different occupation of looking after machines.”

In reality, things have panned out quite differently: despite the increasing accuracy of tests, studies, and equipment, the doctors of today have to contend with priors, outliers, and biases with even deeper and more thoughtful engagement than doctors of the past. This is not a paradox.

Ironically, Thomas’s passage from 1983 feels more prescient about current fears than Mukherjee’s from 2015.

 

Learning to Make Mistakes

10.20.25 // Medicine

Some career advice from the archives of an otherwise defunct blog from venture capital billaionaire Marc Andresseen:

In my opinion, it’s now critically important to get into the real world and really challenge yourself—expose yourself to risk—put yourself in situations where you will succeed or fail by your own decisions and actions, and where that success or failure will be highly visible.

By failure I don’t mean getting a B or even a C, but rather: having your boss yell at you in front of your peers for screwing up a project, launching a product and seeing it tank, being unable to meet a ship date, missing a critical piece of information in a financial report, or getting fired.

Why? If you’re going to be a high achiever, you’re going to be in lots of situations where you’re going to be quickly making decisions in the presence of incomplete or incorrect information, under intense time pressure, and often under intense political pressure. You’re going to screw up—frequently—and the screwups will have serious consequences, and you’ll feel incredibly stupid every time. It can’t faze you—you have to be able to just get right back up and keep on going.

That may be the most valuable skill you can ever learn. Make sure you start learning it early.

This is one of the things about a career in medicine that is very hard to do early on without going outside the school-industrial complex. In the olden days, medical students did more stuff. In many cases, contemporary students are essentially not permitted to have ownership of anything.

Cultivating the skill to deal with responsibility, decision-making admist uncertainty, and dealing with suboptimal interactions & results is probably the biggest differentiator between a happy and unhappy approach to practicing medicine.

The Thin World

10.16.25 // Miscellany

Karl Ove Knausgaard, writing in Harper’s earlier this year:

It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world and has thus been drawn into the human realm, which now encompasses everything. There is no place, no thing, no person or phenomenon that I cannot obtain as image or information. One might think this adds substance to the world, since one knows more about it, not less, but the opposite is true: it empties the world, it becomes thinner. That’s because knowledge of the world and experience of the world are two fundamentally different things. While knowledge has no particular time or place and can be transmitted, experience is tied to a specific time and place and can never be repeated. For the same reason, it also can’t be predicted. Exactly those two dimensions – the unrepeatable and the unpredictable – are what technology abolishes. The feeling is one of loss of the world.

Knausgaard is best known for his voluminous autobiographical writing (his memoirs are in six[!] volumes). It’s perhaps not surprising then that this piece is less about the and more about his experience of technology. I don’t know about the prediction limitation (Asimov might disagree), but I still think he’s on to something.

One corollary to education is that while simulation is powerful and even necessary, the emotional valence of true experience is impossible to replicate entirely.

All the images I’ve seen of places I’ve never been, people I’ve never met create a kind of pseudomemory from a pseudoworld that I don’t participate in.

We are physical creatures living in a physical world with other physical creatures. The question is—as was perhaps most enjoyably explored in the nostalgia romp that is Ready Player One—how much is lost in the virtual world, how strong is the draw to the physical world, and how much of it do we need to live full lives?

Automate or Collaborate

10.13.25 // Miscellany

Popular essays about AI published in our current media like to cycle between utopianism to massive dystopian automation/disruption to the “plea for collaboration.” The latter, from “A Better Way to Think About AI” by David Autor and James Manyika in The Atlantic:

In any given application, AI is going to automate or it’s going to collaborate, depending on how we design it and how someone chooses to use it. And the distinction matters because bad automation tools—machines that attempt but fail to fully automate a task—also make bad collaboration tools. They don’t merely fall short of their promise to replace human expertise at higher performance or lower cost, they interfere with human expertise, and sometimes undermine it.

This is the no man’s land that explains why articles about AI in medicine don’t reflect reality and why everyone I talk to thinks that all radiologists spend their days awash in useful AI.

Human expertise has a limited shelf life. When machines provide automation, human attention wanders and capabilities decay. This poses no problem if the automation works flawlessly or if its failure (perhaps due to something as mundane as a power outage) doesn’t create a real-time emergency requiring human intervention. But if human experts are the last fail-safe against catastrophic failure of an automated system—as is currently true in aviation—then we need to vigilantly ensure that humans attain and maintain expertise.

The permanent cousin of automation bias will be de-skilling. Pilots who can’t actually take the yoke and land planes anymore are de-skilled. If there is a gap between useful AI and magical super-human AI, then mitigating de-skilling and preventing never-skilling are critical components to any future workflow:

Research on people’s use of AI makes the downsides of this automation mindset ever more apparent. For example, while experts use chatbots as collaboration tools—riffing on ideas, clarifying intuitions—novices often treat them mistakenly as automation tools, oracles that speak from a bottomless well of knowledge. That becomes a problem when an AI chatbot confidently provides information that is misleading, speculative, or simply false. Because current AIs don’t understand what they don’t understand, those lacking the expertise to identify flawed reasoning and outright errors may be led astray.

The seduction of cognitive automation helps explain a worrying pattern: AI tools can boost the productivity of experts but may also actively mislead novices in expertise-heavy fields such as legal services. Novices struggle to spot inaccuracies and lack efficient methods for validating AI outputs. And methodically fact-checking every AI suggestion can negate any time savings.

Beyond the risk of errors, there is some early evidence that overreliance on AI can impede the development of critical thinking, or inhibit learning. Studies suggest a negative correlation between frequent AI use and critical-thinking skills, likely due to increased “cognitive offloading”—letting the AI do the thinking. In high-stakes environments, this tendency toward overreliance is particularly dangerous: Users may accept incorrect AI suggestions, especially if delivered with apparent confidence.

The rise of highly capable assistive AI tools also risks disrupting traditional pathways for expertise development when it’s still clearly needed now, and will be in the foreseeable future. When AI systems can perform tasks previously assigned to research assistants, surgical residents, and pilots, the opportunities for apprenticeship and learning-by-doing disappear. This threatens the future talent pipeline, as most occupations rely on experiential learning—like those radiology residents discussed above.

Learners will not truly learn if they don’t take on tasks independently.

Structured Procrastination

10.09.25 // Miscellany, Writing

From “Structured Procrastination” by John Perry, philosopher and author of The Art of Procrastination (delightfully subtitled: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing):

The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.

Structured procrastination means shaping the structure of the tasks one has to do in a way that exploits this fact. The list of tasks one has in mind will be ordered by importance. Tasks that seem most urgent and important are on top. But there are also worthwhile tasks to perform lower down on the list. Doing these tasks becomes a way of not doing the things higher up on the list. With this sort of appropriate task structure, the procrastinator becomes a useful citizen. Indeed, the procrastinator can even acquire, as I have, a reputation for getting a lot done.

This is the story of my life. Everything I’ve written stems from this reality. This blog started in 2009 to escape studying as a medical student. I even started writing and publishing Twitter fiction (of all things!) to further fit something creative in the cracks of my day.

For most of my life, the easiest way to get anything done was to have an overly full plate and just juggle interesting distractions with the sheer terror of missing deadlines.

The Hard Work Muscle

10.06.25 // Reading

From Don’t Believe Everything You Think by Joseph Nguyen:

While a job may be demanding, does that mean it must lead to suffering? Or put another way: Is it absolutely true that every person who has the same intense job feels the exact same way about that job?

The ability to work hard is trainable like a muscle.

It is also common—whether in medical school struggling to land a residency or in residency waiting for attendinghood or being an attending already searching the horizon for retirement—to look forward to milestones:

There are two sources of goals: goals created out of inspiration and goals created out of desperation.

When we dig a little deeper into these types of desperation goals, we see they are all typically “means goals” and not “end goals.” In other words, we want to accomplish the goal in order to get something else, which is why these goals make us feel that we never have enough.

The effectance motive is the only antidote for the arrival fallacy. Being miserable while waiting is a choice. Working hard isn’t always worse: it depends so much on what you’re doing, where you’re doing it, who you’re doing it with, and why you’re doing it. Not all of those facets are necessarily going to be the good ones on any given day or task, but you get to choose your labels and perspectives.

When it’s time to best fill the time you do have, perhaps this thought experiment would help:

If I had infinite money, had no fear, and didn’t feel the need to receive any recognition, what would I do or create?

In real life, you can—to an exent—choose your community and who you hang out with. Online with social media, that’s much, much harder. This is a good video (“Something Strange Happens When You Trace How Connected We Are”) from Veritasium, and if you’re busy, that link takes you to the section on how the classic Prisoner’s Dilemma works when you add in network effects. Game theory tells us not to feed the trolls.

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From her remarkable memoirs, the German-Jewish Gluckel of Hameln, writing about her childhood village of Altona sometime in the 17th century:

But great love and a close community spirit reigned among them, and in general they all enjoyed a better life than the richest man today. If a man were worth only 500 Reichsthalers, he could well be satisfied; and everyone was happier with whatever he had than nowadays when even the rich can never get enough.

The notion of the “good old days” surely comes for us all.

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Radiology Jobs

10.01.25 // Radiology

I believe in the importance of thriving independent private practices for the field of radiology. True private practice—where doctors control the organization, are responsible to their peers and patients, and earn the full fruits of their labor—is the benchmark that sets the market and provides the anchor against exploitation from unscrupulous employers.

My group, like most groups in this market, is hiring. Here are several more 100%-independent radiologist-owned private practices across the US that are recruiting. If you’re in the market for a new position, consider reaching out with your CV. (Click the triangles for more information.)

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Reno Radiological Associates

(Reno, Nevada)

Serving Northern Nevada since 1947, RRA is a strong, highly subspecialized, democratic, extremely collegial, high-earning group of 25 radiologists working in perhaps the best city in the country for raising a family and enjoying unparalleled access to natural beauty, endless outdoor activities (perhaps the best ski-city in the US), and incredible weather (jokingly referred to as “the cheapest city in California” for its proximity to Lake Tahoe (<30 min), Napa Valley, national parks, and more without the super high cost of living and no state income tax).

Shareholder Track (onsite):

  • 1 year to 75% partner, 2 years to 100%
  • Top 90+% comp nationally, maximally generous benefits
  • 8/9/10+ weeks of vacation
  • Remote shifts + opportunities for extra income, $100 buy-in

Employee Track (remote or onsite):

  • High comp, Maximally generous benefits, opportunities for extra income
  • Flexible fully remote options (11a-8p, 8p-3a, or 3a-11a PST)

Independent Contractor (remote or onsite):

  • Flexible shift options (as above), high compensation

Learn more at http://www.renorad.com/
Contact: CEO Anthony Dispenziere at adispenziere@renorad.com

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RAPA

(Central Arkansas [Little Rock, Conway, Searcy, and Pine Bluff] & Northwest Arkansas)

40+ radiologists covering 20+ sites (hospitals + clinics) with a multi-subspecialty mix of inpatient, outpatient, and ED imaging.

  • Robust reading room assistants and IT presence to promote peak efficiency
  • Unified Clario reading list, Inteleviewer PACS, Powerscribe dictation (no switching stations or PACS to read other sites)
  • RadAI automated impressions to improve efficiency.

Partnership track – Central Arkansas (Little Rock, Conway, Searcy, and Pine Bluff) and Northwest Arkansas:

  • 1 year to partnership
  • 10 weeks vacation + 1/2 day off per week on average for partners
  • Highly competitive compensation combined with low cost of living
  • Internal moonlighting options to boost income
  • Robust CME allowance, signing and moving bonuses, full benefits
  • Many work-from-home shift options
  • Minimal after-hours requirements – overnight shifts are fully staffed with telerads

100% Remote Nighthawk, partnership track:

  • 7 on/14 off, 10 pm-7:45 am CST
  • 1 year to partnership
  • Competitive compensation, robust CME allowance, signing bonus, full benefits

100% Remote Neuro/General:

  • Daytime tele neuro/general radiology approximately 50/50 split.
  • Option for employed or partner track. Partner track includes call weekend shifts, approximately 1 in 5 weekends.

Employee track:

  • General radiology, mammography, and other options available
  • Fully remote, hybrid, or on-site options available
  • Flexible scheduling
  • Competitive salaries
  • Robust CME allowance, signing and moving bonuses, full benefits

Greatest needs are IR, mammography, body imaging, MSK, and nuclear medicine, but all subspecialties and general radiologists are welcome.

Learn more at http://rapaxray.com/
Contact: recruitment@rapaxray.com and Dr. Brandon Kelly at bkelly@rapaxray.com

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Eastern Radiologists

(Greenville & Coastal North Carolina)

Eastern Radiologists is a private practice in Eastern North Carolina that is physician-owned and operated and seeking to hire multiple radiologists due to growth and retirement. The well-established private practice serves a large geographic region through 14 area hospitals and several state-of-the-art imaging centers. Support is provided by nearly 70 subspecialty radiologists.

Currently seeking candidates with the following training:

  • Pediatric Imaging
  • Breast Imaging
  • Neuroradiology
  • Body Imaging
  • Nighthawk/Overnight
  • General Diagnostic Radiology
  • Vascular/Interventional

Details:

  • Positions are available in Greenville and other coastal communities in Eastern North Carolina.
  • Most are partnership track positions which include evening and weekend call responsibilities, but other employment options can be considered. Employment positions can be customized to fit desired schedule/income. Internal moonlighting is available for extra income.
  • Great benefits, competitive salary including profit sharing and bonus, generous vacation and paid family leave, and business/educational discretionary account.
  • Sign-on bonus

Learn more at https://www.easternrad.com.
Contact: Erica Askew at easkew@easternrad.com

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Mecklenburg Radiology Associates

(Charlotte, North Carolina)

Established in 1917 and fiercely independent, MRA is a well-respected subspecialized practice of 60 radiologists and growing. They especially take pride in their group culture (seriously, there are some really nice people in that group including one of my old senior residents).

Partnership track:

  • 3-year partnership track with 8 weeks of vacation per year
    $400K starting salary and an additional $75K sign-on bonus ($125K with 2+ years of experience)
  • On-site daytime hospital and imaging center coverage. Hybrid evening and weekend call coverage, including the option to read from home.
  • Available positions: Breast, Body, Cardiovascular, Neuro, Light IR, MSK, Nuclear Medicine, and General

Employee track:

  • Fully remote, hybrid, or on-site options
  • Competitive salary
  • Available positions: MSK, General, Overnight ER, Swing Shift ER, Neuro, Body, and Cardiovascular

Learn more at www.meckrad.com/recruitment.
Contact: Charlene Eichinger at ceichinger@meckrad.com

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Midwest Radiology

(Minneapolis – St. Paul, Minnesota)

Large 175+ subspecialized practice with 17 weeks of vacation. Two-year shareholder track for new graduates and a one-year track with experience.

Positions (On-site):

Body (100% Body) – Regions Hospital
  • Mix of shifts worked on-site
  • Mixture of hospital, outpatient, and remote
  • Interpret MRI, CT, U/S, and radiographs
  • After-hours coverage provided internally by the emergency radiology section
  • No neuro or MSK
Body/Mammo – Western Wisconsin
  • 45-minute drive from the Twin Cities.
  • No overnights, evenings, or weekends required.
  • Interpreting CT, US, body MRI, plain film and mammography studies.
  • Onsite procedures include general fluoroscopy, minor ultrasound, paracentesis, and thoracentesis.
  • No neuro or MSK.
General Body/Mammo
  • Regional hospital sites north and west of the Minneapolis/St. Paul area.
  • Interpreting CT, US, body MRI, plain film and mammography studies.
  • Onsite procedures include general fluoroscopy, minor ultrasound, paracentesis and thoracentesis.
  • No neuro or MSK.
Pediatric Radiologist (100% Peds if desired)
  • General pediatric imaging including fluoroscopy, CT and ultrasound.
  • Experience in MR is optional.
  • Hospital-based.
  • 100% pediatrics if desired (may split time between pediatrics and an additional section).
Neuroradiologist (100% Neuro)
  • Daytime, on-site neuroradiologist.
  • All evenings and 95% of weekend call shifts are off-site.
  • Hybrid weekday (2-3 remote daytime shifts/week).
  • Onsite procedures include lumbar punctures, myelograms, and swallow studies.
  • Functional MRI a plus but not required.
  • Subspecialty CAQ required.
  • No body or MSK.

Positions (Remote):

Daytime Body
  • Fellowship-trained 100% body position
  • Fully remote, daytime, Monday through Friday position with no evenings, weekends, or nights required.
Overnight Body/MSK (Partnership)
  • 1 year to shareholder for experienced radiologists, shareholders work 121 shifts per year (17.3 weeks)
  • Shifts are 10pm to 7am
  • At least two years post-fellowship experience required
  • Multiple other overnight radiologists (Body, MSK, and Neuro) will be working the same shifts allowing for collaboration.
  • 24/7 IT, transcription/editing, and clerical/QA staff assistance.

Learn more at www.midwestradiology.com.
Contact: Barry.Lindo@MidwestRadiology.com

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Radiology and Imaging Specialists

(Central Florida: Lakeland/Winter Haven, SW Orlando, Bradenton)

Independent and long-standing group covering a diverse mix of financially sound hospital partners, outpatient imaging centers, an ASC/OBL, clinics, and a multi-specialty group. 50+ radiologists and 10+ midlevel providers. In-house and experienced IT, Credentialing, HR, and Admin team including dedicated Radiology Liaison support 24/7/365.

Recruiting for Body, Breast, Cardiac, Neuro, IR, and General.

Partnership Track:

  • 1-year track for diagnostic radiologists, 2-year track for interventional radiologists
  • 10 weeks of vacation
  • Sign-on bonus for diagnostic radiologists
  • Call compensation for interventional radiologists
  • Internal moonlighting available but not required
  • Full benefits including CME allocation

Employee or Contractor:

  • Flexible scheduling: Hospital (ED/IP) or outpatient coverage options available
  • Fully remote, hybrid, or on-site depending on location(s) and coverage schedule desired
  • Competitive compensation models (including benefits if employed/full-time)

Learn more at http://risimaging.com.
Contact: Alice Varnadore, Executive Assistant at avarnadore@risimaging.com

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South Texas Radiology Group

(San Antonio, Texas)

STRG is a well-established, expanding, independent subspecialty practice of 70+ radiologists serving 15 hospitals, multiple freestanding ED facilities, and a large outpatient imaging practice (STRIC). Both onsite and remote positions are available.

STRG is a forward-thinking practice with a strong and cohesive culture. Multiple AI projects are in place and in progress to improve efficiency and quality. Internal moonlighting opportunities are available.

Shareholder Track:

  • Flexible associate period as short as 18-months.
  • Leads to full partnership with board of directors membership.
  • Equity ownership within a large expanding outpatient imaging practice (STRIC)
  • Competitive salary with up to $800K starting salary for experienced applicants. Up to $600K starting salary for inexperienced applicants.
  • Excellent benefits package
  • Onsite and work-from-home options for daily work and call
  • Hiring across all specialties, with a current emphasis on Body Imaging and Cardiothoracic/Body

Emergency Radiology Track:

  • 1 week on/1 week off (7/7) and 1 week on/2 weeks off (7/14) positions available
  • Competitive salary with excellent benefits package available.
  • Fully remote and onsite options available.

Employee Mammography Position (Onsite):

  • Competitive base salary with excellent benefits package
  • No call. No nights or weekends.
  • Remote opportunities available for general radiology or body imaging work if interested.

Employee Position – All Subspecialties (Onsite, Hybrid, or Remote ):

  • Competitive base salary with excellent benefits package
  • 5.5 weekends (day shift) per year. No evening or overnight call.

Learn more at https://stric.com/.
Contact: Waynea Finley at wfinley@strg-pa.com

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Radiology of Huntsville

(Huntsville, Alabama)

ROH is 60+ physician, high volume, private practice with a 2-year partnership track and nominal buy-in. Hiring for a remote partnership-eligible overnight position as well as onsite/remote openings in most subspecialites. Huntsville is a tremendously livable, high-tech, and growing mid-sized city (a #1 Best Place to Live in the U.S. by U.S. News and World Report).

Remote Overnight Shareholder/Partner and Limited Shareholder Offers
  • Shareholder/Partner Offer (remote):
    • 1 week on followed by 2 weeks off + 36 additional 2nd shifts annually for full Shareholder status.
    • Average Shareholder compensation of $1MM.
    • Additional internal “moonlighting” paid per RVU. Legitimate seven-figure position with immediate economic parity with existing Shareholders.
  • Alternative Coverage / Compensation Options: (remote)
    • 1 week on / 1 week off for $1.1MM total compensation
    • 1 week on followed by 2 weeks off for $700,000 total compensation
  • Shift Details:
    • 10PM – 7AM Central Time
    • 2 radiologist overnight team with additional triple coverage until midnight and after 6AM
    • RVU Benchmark expectation of 115 wRVUs
Onsite and Remote, Daytime and Second Shift opportunities
  • Abdominal / Body
  • Emergency
  • General Radiology
  • MSK
  • Neuroradiology
  • Nuclear Medicine
  • Pediatric
  • Light Interventional

Learn more at www.radiologyofhuntsville.com.
Contact: Brandy McCown at bmccown@radhunt.com or call 256.713.0621.

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Iowa Radiology

(Des Moines, Iowa)

34-radiologist subspecialized collegial private practice with long-term stability providing coverage to 30 locations across Central and North Central Iowa. Ownership of several outpatient imaging locations yields distributions from technical fees, and Des Moines is one of the fastest-growing areas in the country with a low cost of living, excellent schools, and low taxes.

Partnership track:

  • 2-year partnership track with 12 weeks vacation
  • On-site daytime coverage; hybrid night and weekend call coverage
  • Greatest needs: Breast, Neuro, General. All subspecialties considered for the right candidate.

Employee track:

  • Fully remote, hybrid, or on-site options
  • Excellent salary and benefits package, including up to 10 weeks of vacation depending on role/shift
  • Immediate Need: 3rd Shift Radiologist
    • Nine-hour shift, 7 on/14 off, 100% teleradiology
    • 90-120 cases/shift; ~40 of those CT
    • Base compensation $450,000 w/ additional compensation opportunities
      • Additional comp consideration based on subspecialty (for example, can final read neuro cases)
      • Moonlighting available
      • RVU productivity incentives
    • Full benefits package including 401k, health/dental/vision, pension, life insurance, etc. ($83k benefit value annually)
    • Malpractice and tail paid
  • Other Available positions: General, Breast, Flex Shift, Overnight
    • Overnight shift is 10p-8a CST, 7 on/14 off, 100% teleradiology with average 90-120 total cases per shift
    • Evening shift is 4p-12a CST, alternating weeks M-F only (26 weeks and no holidays/weekends)

Learn more at http://www.iowaradiology.com
Contact: recruit@iowarad.com

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Vantage Radiology & Diagnostic Services

(Near Seattle, Washington)

~35 subspecialized radiologists practicing near Seattle and enjoying a quality lifestyle focused on work-life balance, located minutes from urban amenities, and with easy access to abundant outdoor activities in the natural beauty of the Pacific Northwest. We’ve provided professional services for two hospitals since 1970 and are co-owners of their affiliated imaging centers.

  • Competitive salary ($370-570k) with a signing bonus for a 4-day work week and 8 weeks of vacation.
  • Benefits include a CME allowance, memberships to professional societies, profit-sharing, malpractice and disability insurance, 401K contributions, and a commitment to associate mentorship.
  • All partners and partner-track associates share in general call responsibilities (many from a practice-provided remote home workstation). Overnight call is covered by our internal nighthawk team.

Openings:

Breast:
  • Approximately 75% breast imaging and 25% general radiology.
  • Qualified candidates must be skilled in all breast imaging studies and procedures including screening and diagnostic mammography, ultrasound, MRI, and needle/Savi Scout localization and biopsy.
  • Participation in weekly breast tumor conference.
  • No IR requirements
Neuroradiology:
  • Full-time or 3/4-time partnership-track hybrid position
  • Neuroradiology daytime shifts. Typical general ER/inpatient evening and weekend call shifts from home.
  • No breast or IR requirements
MSK:
  • Full-time or 3/4-time partnership-track hybrid position
  • Caseload consists of multimodality imaging (CT, MR, and limited ultrasound) of joints and spine as well as CT and fluoroscopic-guided diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Typical general ER/inpatient evening and weekend call shifts from home.
  • No breast or IR requirements

Learn more at https://www.vrads.com/
Contact: recruiting@vrads.com

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Radiology Consultants of Little Rock

(Little Rock, Arkansas)

Founded in 1961, RCLR is a 25+ radiologist, subspecialized, independent private practice serving the largest healthcare system in Arkansas as well as the largest urology group in the state.

7 on / 14 off Early Evening/Swing Position:
  • Fully Remote
  • Employee or independent contractor
    • Pay based off competitive rate per RVU
    • Malpractice coverage provided
  • 8 hour shifts, 12 – 8 PM central time
    • Ideal for radiologists in Pacific time zone
  • General and emergency radiology
  • All modalities excluding breast and PET, NM is minimal
    <~75 RVUs/shift average before internal moonlighting
  • Internal moonlighting optional
    • Available during shifts and weekends
    • Additional daytime weeks available
  • Single IT stack
  • Employee Benefits: 401(k), health/dental/vision, life and disability insurance
7 on / 7 off Early Swing Shift (Partnership eligible):
  • Fully remote
  • Starting salary of $575K
  • 1 year track to full partnership
  • Competitive partner salary
  • 7 on/7 off but with the perk of being excused from 6 weekends per year
    • Excused from holidays that may fall on your scheduled week but share in overall holiday coverage evenly with the rest of the partnership
  • 8 hour shifts, 12 – 8 PM central time
    • Ideal for radiologists in Pacific time zone
  • General and emergency radiology
  • All modalities excluding breast and PET, NM is minimal
    <~75 RVUs/shift average before internal moonlighting
  • Internal moonlighting optional
    • Available during shifts and weekends
    • Additional daytime weeks available
  • Single IT stack
  • Benefits: 401(k), health/dental/vision, life and disability insurance

Learn more at https://www.radconlr.com
Contact: Terrie Threlkeld at terrie.threlkeld@radconlr.com

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Grand Traverse Radiologists

(Traverse City, Michigan)

Established in 1938, GTR is a 100% physician-owned and operated private practice in a four-season resort town on the bays of Lake Michigan.

  • High compensation and 12 weeks vacation
  • Post-call weekend days off
  • Internal moonlighting available
  • Positions/partnerships are on-site, but multiple shifts can be done from home.
  • Collegial and youthful group with an average age under 40. All partners are equal.
  • Hiring for growth. Lists are caught up!

Needs: Body, Breast, ER/General, and IR

Learn more at https://www.grandtraverseradiologists.com
Contact: Dr. Anthony Livorine at alivorine@gtradiologists.com

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Inland Imaging

(Washington, Oregon, Montana)

Inland Imaging is a 120+ radiologist-owned private practice proudly serving multiple outpatient, clinic, and hospital sites throughout the Inland Northwest region. We own and operate one of the first outpatient interventional labs in the West in addition to 7 outpatient imaging centers.

Our practice:

  • Sub-specialty interpretations available across all locations.
  • All studies are accessible on a common PACS system, one common voice recognition system, and one common worklist
  • Internal Nighthawk System providing final interpretations on all ER, STAT, and Inpatient Exams. 24/7 Neuroradiology Coverage and IR Call Coverage.
  • 2-year Partnership Track.
  • Full-Time Radiologist Average Time Off = 15 weeks with the ability to decrease or increase total time off.
  • Average after-hours obligations = 9 weekends per year and 22 evening/swing Shifts.
  • Salary Range – $450,000 – $600,000
  • Full Benefit Package including health, life, vision, dental, disability, and life.
  • 401k match, profit-sharing contribution, and cash balance plan.
  • Hybrid Work Options

Current Openings:

  • Remote overnight ER
  • Neuroradiology (choice of Spokane, Seattle, Walla Walla, Tri-Cities, or Missoula)
  • Washington
    • Tri-Cities (with $75k signing bonus)
      • Breast
      • Neuro
      • MSK
    • Spokane – Pediatrics
    • Moses Lake – General/Breast (with $90k signing bonus, $20k relocation benefit, and annual retention bonus)
    • Colville – General/Breast
  • Montana
    • Missoula – IR
  • Oregon
    • Pendleton – General/Breast

More information about these positions can be found on our Independent Radiology listing.

Learn more at https://inlandimaging.com/careers
Contact: Sarah Russell, CEO at srussell@inlandimaging.com

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