Is its value being perceived by noninterventionalists within a radiology group?
Lipman: In my instance, that was one of the reasons I went into private practice five years ago. For the first 14 years of my career, I was with a large radiology group that had subspecialties. However, the biggest impediment was the noninterventional people in my practice. Going into solo practice has allowed me to take care of patients. I have a full-time office practice, unencumbered by noninterventional people who had no understanding of the importance of a clinical practice. They never had a clinical practice before I came to the group. I insisted on having an office and a clinical practice. Having that office, staffing it, and with all the overhead that comes with it, was something the noninterventionalists didn’t understand. That became an issue over time. I wanted to take care of patients. They wanted me to read films and valued film reading over clinic time. It is a challenge for a number of groups. But talking to other people during the past five years, that situation seems t
