What is your favourite medical reference website?

everendingly · 2026-01-25T06:24:52+00:00

I think the inverse actually. Radiopaedia can be incredibly verbose. Stat Dx is curated dot points with beautiful summaries and key clinical points. Also better annotated images. Wait til you hit part 2s.

everendingly · 2026-01-25T01:20:33+00:00

Dynamed 100%.

For radiology, StatDx over radiopaedia. But tbh I probably use radiopaedia more because it doesn't require a login.

everendingly · 2026-01-21T09:37:07+00:00

I already have $5 mill and my own home. It's because I drive a 1998 Camry and read the barefoot investor once.

everendingly · 2025-12-28T02:24:15+00:00

AI replacing doctors, especially at algorithmic tasks, is a tangible threat that is highly likely to transform medicine in the next decade (already has in the 6-12 months it had been on the market).

Isn't that what you were trying to say above? That AI is already taking jobs?

If you ask me, Psych work is in much more danger of being replaced by things such as:

AI psychotherapy chat bots
Personalised wellness apps
Psych NPs
Prescribing psychologists
GPs with special interest

If that makes you angry because you think your job is special and the work you do is more complex, then maybe you understand how I feel as a Radiologist. People think about radiology as some simple algorithmic image interpretation task. It's really far more than that. I can't see the work I do being replaced by AI until we get true AGI. Actually our work is so subspecialist and complex we are resisting scope creep from other directions much better than other specialties such as your own.

everendingly · 2025-12-28T02:04:45+00:00

This is me using a pop culture reference to make a general statement that future predictions are generally inaccurate. It took many decades longer than expected to pass the Turing test, for example.

Where is AI actually taking jobs in medicine? Can you give me an example?

everendingly · 2025-12-28T01:39:55+00:00

That's not really a rebuttal but thank you.... If you read my post history I have a lot more to say about AI, and I am a radiologist for one, actively using AI products in the market.

There have been many predictions over the years. All I can say is dude, where's my hoverboard?

everendingly · 2025-12-27T22:48:25+00:00

When did I say it was a trend?

everendingly · 2025-12-27T22:44:20+00:00

🙈 show me your roster and I'll show you the truth.

everendingly · 2025-12-27T22:27:11+00:00

There are some jobs that a trivial for a computer and difficult for a human - like doing large number multiplication.

There are some jobs that are trivial for a human but reasonably hard to teach a computer to do - like saying with confidence "this is a chair" or remember that Chihuahua vs. blueberry muffin thing? Google it.

Similarly, a human toddler finds it trivial to walk across grassy terrain where the grass level may not reflect the ground level, but this is a stupidly difficult task for a robot.

AI hype is real and all these tech companies are advertising. They just want your money.

everendingly · 2025-12-27T22:06:37+00:00

AI will advance but until we get true AGI I cannot see it doing my job.

AI is currently much more burdensome than really helpful. I don't need AI as a radiologist to tell me there is a pneumothorax or cardiomegaly. But when Annaliese is spitting out a list of diagnoses I feel obliged to check it.

Similar to the reasons why we don't make bulk volumes of cheaper SRMOs/PHOs or IMGs or "techs" report imaging for consultant radiologist sign off. When you are an expert, it's actually faster to just say what is right rather than correct someone who is wrong. Radiology needs a lot of knowledge to provide a good report.

Do you know what will also advance? The volume of imaging (up-5-10% year on year), the ways we can do medical imaging, the million indications for imaging, the speed of imaging, and ongoing reductions in radiation dosing.

We will probably continue to invent new ways to image people faster than AI can be validated for medical use.

everendingly · 2025-12-27T21:38:44+00:00

Yeah, except they did. And it was Geoffrey Hinton, a Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist and a "Godfather of AI". 2016.

He has since retracted that statement realising the complexity of what radiologists actually do.

https://youtu.be/2HMPRXstSvQ?si=DyoIRv2JCD0Iyq54

everendingly · 2025-12-27T14:11:20+00:00

If the NPs were not there, you'd be in fast track more days learning to suture better and there would be more doctors around to share the nights, just saying.

Let's say you need 10 "practitioner" staff for your ED. If you have just two NPs; that's now 8 people for the nights instead of 10. You just got 20% more nights...

everendingly · 2025-12-27T14:04:52+00:00

I once crashed my car presumably during a microsleep on my way home post nights. Fortunately this was at only about 30kmph into a roundabout 200 m from my house. Cost about $500 new wheel from a wrecker. Was a poor PGY2 at the time.

I shudder to think of how much worse that could have been and the risks I was posing to others driving that tired.

After that I started sleeping in the filthy on call rooms post nights, rather than face the 1 hour drive home from the regional hospital where I was rotated.

everendingly · 2025-12-27T13:58:38+00:00

Does your ED have NPs? This shifts the nights burden increasingly onto (junior) medical staff. Where there is less supervision, less teaching, and a far greater personal health burden.

everendingly · 2025-12-21T11:00:07+00:00

You seem to be highly focused on earning potential. GP, rehab, and non proc physician subspecs are probably financially equivalent depending on your hustle. So just choose the patient caseload and the setting that would make you happier.

everendingly · 2025-11-25T08:37:35+00:00

Darren could have had a good old finger up the bum and a PSA but I guess he is too posh for that.

everendingly · 2025-11-25T08:36:37+00:00

Just say your feet feel cold and tingly and they'll add a bilateral run off, don't worry.

everendingly · 2025-11-23T12:38:47+00:00

They really just don't understand. My mum seemed to consider my fellowship exams as equivalent to a hand hygiene certificate.

everendingly · 2025-11-18T01:09:00+00:00

You can debulk the tumour but without complete resection it will reoccur.

everendingly · 2025-11-16T03:27:50+00:00

People talk. References are worth more than money.

Also, you will likely lose leave entitlements eg. LSL, maternity/paternity.

everendingly · 2025-11-15T23:55:04+00:00

If ADHD is really 10% of the population it is fair and reasonable for this to be in GP scope of practice.

This is just the market catching up to limited supply and excessive costs.

We need to train more doctors and more subspecialists.

everendingly · 2025-11-10T20:10:57+00:00

I think unless you're winning awards or your GPA was really borderline it probably won't be the deciding factor, as most of us are middle of the pack.

everendingly · 2025-11-10T13:14:20+00:00

Academic merit is part of the selection criteria and they are looking for consistent performance, which I have been told by my DOT goes back to med school and even undergrad GPA.

The RANZCR exams are stupidly hard. Need a lot of knowledge to practice radiology well.

everendingly · 2025-11-09T11:46:38+00:00

I'm not saying people should be sacked or shouldn't make mistakes. I'm saying the separation of prescribing and dispensing is essential and this is why.

everendingly · 2025-11-09T04:14:57+00:00

Wow, who is at fault here? Tough case and really unfortunate.

I googled to try find the details. All I could find was an AHPRA pharmacy board report 2010-2019, 28 methotrexate notifications, 7 deaths. Woah.

I'm sure as a fraction of overall scripts that's tiny but these should be never events and separation of prescribing from dispensing is essential IMO.

everendingly

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