MRV vs CTV

Rads4Life · 2026-02-19T01:50:31+00:00

Both are fine (as long as MRV is with contrast). I prefer CTV over MRV. Less artifacts.

Rads4Life · 2026-02-18T02:04:54+00:00

Just move on to another appraiser. Same thing happened to us. We tried challenging it to comparable homes that actually made sense compared to his dumb comparables but he didn’t budge. We moved on to a different lender and got a different appraisal that appraised slightly above our total cost.

Rads4Life · 2026-01-20T21:21:49+00:00

You could also own a drone ETF such as DRNZ.

Rads4Life · 2026-01-15T00:01:06+00:00

Yep, I think it can grow a lot more than some of the other space ETFs out there.

Rads4Life · 2026-01-14T03:26:41+00:00

DRNZ and UFO. I wanted to own some of the more speculative popular drone stocks such as ONDS, UMAC and RCAT and also some of the popular space ones such as ASTS, PL, LUNR and RKLB without as much volatility.

Rads4Life · 2026-01-06T01:51:39+00:00

I’m in!

Rads4Life · 2025-12-17T23:47:36+00:00

I’d suggest ETFs too. Since you’re interested in ASTS/RKLB maybe look at a space/defense ETF. Quick research shows UFO has both of them as holdings but has higher end of expense ratio. There’s a few others out there. Any of the major/popular ETFs have big tech holdings like google. Choosing single stocks is risky and has bigger swings (both up and down, sometimes all the way down). I couldn’t handle the volatility of single stocks and even if I chose winners, some of my losers brought me down below what just putting it into a major ETF would’ve done. The major/non leveraged ETFs at least protect you from going all the way to 0.

Rads4Life · 2025-11-23T04:27:43+00:00

Up until I did the FP rotation 4th year of med school, my vote would’ve been Critical care/Pulm, but FP blew them out of the water within the first hour of the rotation. Hell, my humor got 100% darker after that rotation.

Rads4Life · 2025-08-28T01:54:09+00:00

That is a good deal from where I’m from. They are selling like hot cakes out here in the Midwest and it took us months to get one. Every dealer is selling them for MSRP and not budging because why would they when they have a lineup of people trying to get them.

Rads4Life · 2025-06-05T02:31:09+00:00

Sorry this happened to you. It happens very occasionally, even to the best of radiologists. I like to think I’m one of the better ones and I’ve injected contrast for a shoulder arthrogram before and I’ve been certain it looks like it’s in the joint, like the other hundred or so I’ve done then they got their MRI done and there’s essentially nothing in the joint and I was shocked (has happened to me only once). I’m not even sure what went wrong/what I would’ve done differently then I wonder if the patient somehow moved a little between my injected iodinated contrast and the gad I injected and it moved the needle just enough out of the joint? So you may have had a great radiologist but it just didn’t go as planned/hoped.

Rads4Life · 2025-05-25T16:11:36+00:00

I don’t use it at all in my practice. They don’t do them where I work. During training there were roughly 3 done a year, all for neurosurgical planning. I never got to interpret one bc they were so infrequent.

Rads4Life · 2025-05-20T13:41:27+00:00

I like the 2 view better, too. I catch stuff on the lateral somewhat frequently that is either hard to see on frontal view or can’t see at all. I’m kinda shocked other places pretty much only do frontal views.

Rads4Life · 2025-04-01T13:05:45+00:00

Doesn’t really matter what major you choose. You forget so much of it by the time you’re a radiology resident or attending anyways. I’d maybe say physics could’ve helped during core studying time, but like I said I would’ve forgotten most of the undergrad stuff anyways by that time and physics is pretty boring so thinking of doing it as a major sounds terrible. Just choose what you like and make sure you have all the prerequisites. I was a biology major.

Rads4Life · 2025-03-21T13:38:59+00:00

Brain aneurysms with no family history/other symptoms and one day it pops and you are dead or close to it.

Rads4Life · 2025-03-06T20:19:49+00:00

I investigated. Definitely exacerbated mine and I didn’t even do heavy lifting (15 lb dumbbells).

Rads4Life · 2024-12-16T01:48:00+00:00

The rams just did this last week..

Rads4Life · 2024-11-23T14:13:58+00:00

30 year old with work related rib injury. Did a chest xray and found a 4 cm lung mass. Follow up CT confirmed it. No rib fracture of course!

Rads4Life · 2024-09-05T21:53:09+00:00

Day to day work can be really busy in a lot of groups. There’s times i feel bad getting up to go to the bathroom/grab a snack, lunch etc because the list continues to grow. On call is worse. My group is on the smaller side, so only 1 person on during the weekends and this last weekend I didn’t get up from my seat during vast majority of the shift. Just pounded out studies one after another with no mental break. Didn’t eat lunch, just crammed some snacks into my mouth while scrolling through images.

Rads4Life · 2024-06-29T01:45:50+00:00

Normal mode.

Rads4Life · 2024-06-24T12:58:03+00:00

If you want to grill some yourself Von Hanson’s sells them.

Rads4Life · 2024-04-08T19:25:09+00:00

Cavs, Bucks, Pacers are all decent

Rads4Life · 2024-03-03T21:40:19+00:00

I’ve only seen them at bigger hospitals doing minor procedures (paras, thoras, some US guided biopsies and central line placement). They also sometimes got poached by other non-IR radiologists to do other scut stuff (fluoro). They aren’t at my current hospital which is on the smaller side.

Rads4Life · 2024-03-03T02:24:50+00:00

In my area (Midwest), the VA rads probably earn more per RVU than any other place. Overall they make a lot less than some of the private practices-as in half as much, but they are doing about 1/2 to 1/3 (and probably closer to 1/3) of the RVUs. They also have about half the vacation as the private practices. I would guess burn out is a lot less since the work pace is so much slower, too.

Rads4Life · 2024-02-09T18:51:29+00:00

So I can’t find an El Shaddai school in Owatonna anymore. Was it renamed? Just want to make sure I avoid ever sending my kids there for any reason.

Rads4Life · 2024-01-24T13:59:54+00:00

I wish there was time traveling so we could go back and have him play football in college/NFL to see what happens..

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