Midlevels invading radiology.

I posted about the North Carolina situation on this thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/Radiology/comments/my8sxo/nps_in_north_carolina_attempting_to_get/

I wanted to make another post to highlight what I am about to say.
Midlevels are starting to do radiology interpretation. University of Pennsylvania, in particular is doing this and does not hide it. I have rumors of others doing it.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/yky0enck5awd24c/Penn%20paper.%20radiology%20extenders.pdf?dl=0

Last week I gave a talk to radiologists, including leaders of the ACR about these issues. I will give it to you. NOTE: The first 60% is about the issue in medicine in general, the last 40% about radiology (the demarcation is the slide labeled "intermission")

here it is in Powerpoint:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/uauzhzm1ehlqcix/ERS%20Midlevel%20presentation.pptx?dl=0

Here is a PDF of the slides:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/mmq6imes4lbjrt9/%22Idiocracy%22%20presentation%20for%20handout.pdf?dl=0

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