In any radiology department worldwide, around 60–70% of investigations deal with
surgical cases: trauma, tumors, pre- and postsurgical assessment, surgical follow-ups,
and more. In spite of that, radiology has a lot to offer in the fi eld of internal medicine
in terms of establishing, confi rming, or rejecting diagnoses, or favoring differential
diagnoses.
Before I joined radiology, I worked as an internal physician for almost a year and
almost another year and half as a general surgeon. This clinical experience leads me
to look at radiological images with the eye of a radiologist and the mind of a clinician
when I examine patient radiological images. I even take a history and do a clinical
examination if I have the chance when the patient is in the ultrasound, CT, or MRI
room. I have always believed that the radiologist’s role is not confi ned to writing
reports, but it can be broadened to establish the diagnosis in the fi rst hand in the same
way as the clinician do.