Giving Back: RAD-AID

Question: What do airships, 747 ’s, William Shatner, Radiology, and giving back have in common?Answer: RAD-AID International!Let me explain …A few years ago, I decided to bail out of the rat-race of private practice. My original goal was to retire altogether, but it seemed more reasonable to ease out slowly, maintain health insurance and some shred of income, and have something to do, at least periodically. And so I started out working 26 weeks per year, and now I ’m down to 22 weeks. Which leaves 30 weeks that need to be filled. I had originally thought I would ramp up my writing, but somehow that hasn’t happened; in fact, my articles and blog posts have been fewer and further apart. Part of the problem is that my wife has insisted upon “For better or worse, but not for lunch,” and so I’ve had to look for more to do outside the house.It seemed wasteful to simply walk away from things Radiological and Nuclear, having trained extensively and practiced the trade for many, many years. But what could I do with this expertise? I wasn ’t about to go academic, and I didn’t want to teach, at least not in the conventional sense.In the midst of my musings, a pilot friend alerted me to an elaborate plan to convert a 747, then languishing in a Tucson boneyard, into a flying hospital:I had strong opinions as to what imaging equipment absolutely had to be onboard, and I prepared to bombard the project with my recommendations. Sadly, the 747 proved to be the wrong platform...
Source: Dalai's PACS Blog - Category: Radiology Source Type: blogs