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Medical specialists fighting over radiology
Morning Report
English - August 21, 2022 20:21 - 5 minutes - 5.46 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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It's an extraordinary fight among highly paid medical specialists, with each side accusing the other of putting money ahead of patient welfare.
As investment pours into private radiology, a grouping of powerful radiology companies are taking on surgeons who have begun taking stakes in private practices that do MRI, CT and x-ray scanning.
The scrap is embroiling the High Court, ACC, the Commerce Commission, the professional medical colleges - and includes bitter accusations to the Medical Council.
Reporter Phil Pennington spoke to Susie Ferguson.