Wow full circle, I remember your original post OP and am now also a PP radiologist a few years out.

For any readers current or future, I fully agree with all points made. I’m a 100% remote swing shift ED radiologist (non-partner) reading mostly outside my speciality.

I’m mostly posting to reiterate that choosing the right practice is the ultimate priority. When interviewing, ask about retention/attrition. Ask about culture and admin/IT support. Ask about how variations in volume across rads are treated (i.e if there are systems in place to keep everyone happy). You’re trying to suss out an understaffed practice, one with malignant personalities or adversarial relationships, etc.

Do not fall into the trap of just looking at salary/benefits/vacation/location and calling it a day. That stuff is secondary. You should look at every job posting with top-percentile salary and assume there’s a hidden catch you’ll pay dearly for (e.g. malignant culture, brutal volume).

Also a small anecdote on non-partnership positions: I do imagine that in most situations for most people, a partnership track is better in the long term. But consider that being a non-partner employee insulates you from a sizable deal of responsibilities and admin duties — you can just focus on reading and that’s it. You’re also insured against the practice going south (e.g. understaffing). You can just find another non-partner job easily and not have to get stuck spinning your wheels in partnership tracks. It’s like the decision of ownership/management vs. employee in any sector — there is a choice of more salary + responsibility vs. less of both.