The radiologist in the modern teaching hospital

Abstract

Perhaps it is true to say that no branch in Medicine has changed so drastically in the last twenty five years as did Radiology. Up to the last World War, the Radiology Department was usually housed somewhere in the basement of the Hospital and the Radiologist, often 'amateur' and 'honorary' popped in and out of the hospital and reported on piles of films, often unnoticed. More often than not, nobody took much notice of his reports. This was the sad state of Radiology in those far gone days. Since the last World War, the whole of Medicine has changed a lot, and we feel that Radiology, through its evolution, has played a considerable part to bring about such a change. To take only one aspect, organ transplantation, cardiac surgery and vascular surgery have been made possible through the developments and advances in Radiology.