Nurses and the art of medicine

Sandeep Janhar, MD, director of the heart failure program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, challenges the wisdom behind recent passage of state legislation that removes physician oversight of nurse practitioners for primary care. The move overestimates cost savings and underestimates a doctor’s clinical value, he wrote in an opinion piece in the New York Times.

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Several key trends were evident at the Radiological Society of North America 2024 meeting, including new CT and MR technology and evolving adoption of artificial intelligence.

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.

Eleven medical societies have signed on to a consensus statement aimed at standardizing imaging for suspected cardiovascular infections.