All right, so Zainab Vora, what is the scope of radiology? One question that I see here is, do you miss being a clinician? This is a question because people who take up radiology are getting, most of them are getting a clinical branch. So over to you Zainab. Thank you, thank you everyone.
So when we talk about radiology, you know, in the beginning, you mentioned how this is a marriage, this is one of the marriages you will have out of many or one, whatever. So this is something where we get married in radiology is one branch, which I feel is an arranged marriage most of the time, like how our parents say, do it if you are getting a good boy or girl So that is how they take up radiology.
It’s very rarely a love marriage, where people have passion for it, you know, about radiology. Even if I talk about myself, it was never something which I thought about until I got the rank and I thought okay it is an option, should I consider it? So that’s how people end up with it.
Now if I have to talk about the pros and cons, you know, one of the biggest pros is obviously the most famous, that is the work-life balance that you can achieve with it. The second one, the biggest in my opinion is the flexibility you get and the kind of options that you have, that radiology opens for you where depending on what kind of work suits you, you can choose a variety of options even after choosing MD radiology, you know. So if you have a surgical bent of mind, you want to do procedures, you want to have that adrenaline rush, IR is a very, very big field.
It is booming and it’s only going to grow from now. So IR opens up a whole different kind of path for you. If you feel that I don’t want to do that, I want to be in diagnostic radiology, which also gives you a lot of job satisfaction, particularly if you are in a government or a private hospital setup.
One of the limitations of diagnostic radiology comes in, in my opinion, when you go to a private centre setup, you know, where you have a focused ultrasound setup or you have a focused CT setup. That is the time you feel that the feedback is lacking, where you feel that you are not valued enough. So that is the only disadvantage where I feel you will feel that you know, you don’t have that clinical satisfaction, which in a government setup, when I was at AIIMS as a JR, as an SR, I never felt that, you know, that I am not being valued enough, because ultimately it’s your opinion, which every clinician will come and take.
We’ll have radio conferences where we’ll discuss the case. So you never get that feeling that you know, you’re not doing some clinical work. That is something which never comes into the picture.
It does come into the picture when we work in a centre, I must say that in an ultrasound centre. So that is one of the limitations of only doing diagnostics. The best part I feel is a mix of both.
If you can manage both diagnostic and do some interventional procedures, I feel that gives you the best of both worlds where you have good flexible hours of work and you also are doing procedures, you are doing interventions. So there are many, many interventions you can do. You can do vascular interventions, which is core IR.
Then there are non-vascular, which are ultrasound-guided procedures. There are CT-guided procedures, which we tend to do. And I’ve seen people who, you know, just specialize in breast interventions, something as specific as breast interventions, and they build a whole career on that and are thriving, you know, so there is a lot to be learned, you know, there are a lot of opportunities once you get into MD radiology, so that’s MD or DNB radiology.
So these are the good things. The limitation side, as you all know, is the one that you are not managing the patient, you know, end of the day, you are a doctor’s doctor, you are the patient, it doesn’t know, you know, who your radiologist is most of the times. So that’s the part, which is the only limitation I feel.
Another thing is you do have to study a lot, don’t go in thinking it’s going to be easy. Residency is a very long learning curve, it’s a slow learning curve, there’s a lot to learn, there’s a lot to study, and it’s all-new because what we go in knowing about radiology is not enough. And it’s just the beginning point and there is a lot of skill to be acquired.
So as young residents, it will get overwhelming, intimidating at times in the first six months, you don’t understand what the heck is going on, but it’s okay, you will eventually understand. So that’s the thing, you know, people should keep in mind. So you have to be willing to, you know, study a lot, there will be a lot of studying, more studying on the job rather than, you know, with the books, obviously, like any other branch, but a lot of learning will go into it, it’s a whole different skill set that we have to acquire.
Apart from that, if I have to talk about DNB versus MD radiology, I think, again, just as Dilip sir said, this is another branch where DNB radiology doesn’t put you any lesser, you know, in terms of job opportunities, in terms of the pay, I think it’s almost equal and the job opportunities are definitely equal, you know, so I know a lot of DNB radiologists who then go out, you know, go and do a senior residency from another college and as far as the knowledge is concerned, or the skills are concerned, they are at par with any other radiologist out there. The same goes for DMRD, in radiology, we also have a diploma course, which is a two-year DMRD, which I think one of the students was asking. So DMRD can also be done and most of the times they follow it up with a three-year DNB course, right? So that end of the day becomes a five-year training course.
So there I would advise a bit of caution because anyways, you’re doing five years, it’s wiser to, you know, given one more year of a drop and try to get a DNB or MD seat if radiology is truly the one branch that you want to take, you know, and you don’t want to take any other options. So that case, I would advise against a diploma, because then it ends up just being a longer course. As far as IR and radiation is concerned, there’s one question about that.
Obviously, there is radiation that you work with, but there are cutoffs which are laid down by the AERB, which are the guidelines that our government has. So you will not be crossing those, you will not be allowed to cross those. Obviously, there are measures we take, we wear lead aprons, and there are other radiation protection measures that you take.
So I don’t think it should be one of the factors that would be discouraging you to from taking radiology, don’t worry about it, you won’t be allowed to go beyond that range of radiation exposure, which is not safe for you. So for girls also, I think girls have this worry or fear more than boys because of the age that you want to do IR. So you don’t have to worry about it my answer is, that it will be in the safe range and we monitor the radiation that you know you are going to be exposed to.
Apart from that, it’s always a rotational posting, even if you’re doing IR, it’s always rotational. And it’s not something that you would be doing day in and day out. There are always, you know, rotations that you will take into non-radiation interventions as well.
So that way, that’s not a concern. Another big concern is AI, I feel that people feel AI is going to replace radiology, which I feel is completely nonsensical. Who is working on AI? It’s we are working on AI, right? So do you think it is something that can replace us? It can’t, it is always going to help us, any artificial intelligence, we are going to use it to help us.
I’ll tell you what work is going on in AI today, it’s all about radio genomics. Now, for example, I see a lung mass, you know, I’m going to use AI to do texture analysis and tell me if is it an EGFR mutation, is it ALK mutation. So you know, that’s the kind of work which is going on.
Apart from that, another application can be, for example, I have 100 x-rays to report, AI will sort it out, it tries out that, okay, these are the three which need your attention first, these can be seen later. So that’s how AI is going to only help and complement us and never replace us, that’s never going to be the case. And if I have another artificial intelligence, which I have only trained to find a pattern for me and give me another opinion, it’s always going to be better, right? It’s going to be better for our patients.
So please don’t be worried about this, the kind of work which is going on in AI is actually very, very exciting and very interesting. And for those of you who are actually interested in basic science research or just research in general, radiology opens up a very, very exciting avenue for that as well, those of you who have a research bend of mind, you know. So yeah, this is what I had to say.
If you have any other doubts, radiation oncology has nothing to do with radiology, it’s a completely different course to do with treating cancer patients with radiation, it’s not radiology. Nuclear medicine, another three-year MD branch, which is correlated with, you know, which is related to radiology, just that you use gamma rays, you use PET scans so it’s also diagnostic. And now we have therapeutic nuclear medicine also, which is very exciting.
The only limitation of nuclear medicine is the opportunity, you know, it is more in, you know, bigger cities where you will have multi-speciality hospitals. Otherwise, job opportunities are a little lesser in nuclear medicine. Apart from that, all the perks of radiology are with nuclear medicine.
So that is all I had to say. So Zainab has taken the lecture, the summary, the questions and the answers. So thank you very much, Zainab.
You can get back to your recordings. Thank you so much. Although Zainab, if I may ask this, sorry, Apoorva sir.
I think what Zainab talked about the influence of AI in radiology. I mean, I mean, we all have to see what happens, but I think AI is going to impact all the branches. And I mean, if I can just, you know, think of one scenario, say there are 10 x-rays to be reported.
And if AI starts diagnosing it better than humans, and that is not only for radiology, but for all of the branches, I think, the number of people needed might go down. But again, I believe that, you know, medicine or medical science would be the last branch to get impacted by AI, because replacing a human with AI probably will happen in the end in medical branches. That is a risk that people would not want to take.
Yeah, I mean, what I have to say about this is if you are alive today and thinking of taking up radiology in your lifetime, AI is not going to replace you. That is 100% sure. And even if you know, I think of as a patient, if I’m going there and I see my report has been signed by AI and a human eye has not looked at it, I’m not going to buy it, right? Even if AI tells me it’s the primary observer, even if I become a secondary observer, I have to be an observer.
But Zainab, what about if a study shows that AI is able to identify 90% of cases correctly and humans 70%? We both work, right? We both work in conjunction. It’s always one plus one. It’s human minus AI or human plus AI.
It can’t be only AI is what I’m trying to say. Because I’ll share something regarding psychiatry. I mean, there’s a new software that has that have come up regarding CBT cognitive behavioural therapy.
And, you know, I was just using it and the way it was answering the questions was so brilliant, so good that very few psychologists can actually, you know, do it like that. I mean, I see a clear-cut case of AI replacing at least some therapists in the future because it’s so good and it’s cheap. So, I mean, I hope what you’re saying remains true.
None of us is thrown out of our jobs. You know, my take on this, again, you know, might be a bit more optimistic, but what I feel is even if it does see the x-rays, it’s good for me, right? But there are always going to be so many other things that we can now do. If it can do chest X-rays for me, it’s good.
I can go to CTs and I can go to MRs. If it can do CTM, I can do much more. You know, so basically human potential can’t be capped and we are the ones working on AI end of the day, right? So, I mean, in your lifetime, in our lifetime, if a student is watching this, I don’t think this has to be a concern for opting for radiology is what I can say.
That is for sure. I mean, this should not be a reason not to opt for any branch. I mean, whatever happens, we’ll see, but that should not be a factor in taking up the branch.
That I would totally agree with you. Thank you so much. I would like to start by saying that I don’t think we would want AI or robots to either intubate us or give us a spinal or epidural.
So, my branch is completely safe in that aspect. Having said that, I’m a big, big promoter of anesthesia. I would like to state this fact, anesthesia is a branch which most of us take by chance and not by choice.
Many of us don’t take it as our first choice. But I would give you a 10-year plan starting from now, why you’re not going to regret this choice if you make it now. First of all, in year one, right now, when you’re applying for admission, you have the maximum number of seats in the entire country in anesthesia.
So, if you’re the kind of person who wants to do a clinical branch, but for you location of the branch, and staying close to your family is more important, then I can tell you guarantee most of you can get a good anesthesia MD or DNB seat in your own city.
The second thing is once you pass out of anesthesia, so that is when we come to year three, you have a lot of opportunities in anesthesia in terms of super speciality like pediatric, neuro cardiac transplant. But suppose you don’t want to continue anesthesia at all, if you feel like I’m not comfortable with this branch, and I want to pursue something else, we have two absolutely different things that you can do after an MD or DNB anesthesia.
First is critical care. It is one of the most upcoming things and you can definitely become an intensivist and manage ICUs and hospitals, which is a very, very handsomely paying branch right now. The second thing that you can do, which again is upcoming and there aren’t too many experts in it in is pain medicine.
So pain medicine is like the interventional part of anesthesia, where you can practice interventional pain blocks. And this is more of an OPD-based practice. So you can have your own OPD as well as your own radiology centre where you can give C-arm guided or ultrasound-guided blocks.
Now, this was at year three, when you’re choosing your different paths, let’s go to year five of your practice when you plan to go out into practice. This is the time when most of the other branches, with due respect, are actually trying to look for, find patients or find jobs in institutions or corporate hospitals. And everywhere attachment is very difficult to get.
But in the case of anesthesia, there are so many jobs in anesthesia, as soon as you step out, like people will actually be coming up to you and saying, please, can you come to my hospital? Can you come to my hospital also? Like, I’ll tell you, nine out of 10 times, I’ve had to say no, that I’ve already committed to a case and I cannot make it. So if we talk about saturation related to this branch, there is absolutely no saturation. In fact, there is more and more need for anesthetist.
We need anesthetist not just in the OT, we even need it MRI, and CT scans, wherever we have children for sedation. We need anesthetist for standby in dermat procedures. We need anesthetist for OBS-related IVF, and all of these procedures.
So you need an anesthetist practically everywhere and anywhere. So there are lots of jobs in anesthesia. And the best thing is that not just the saturation, you don’t have to market yourself as an anesthetist.
The minute you just make your business card and hand it out to surgeons or clinics and say that I have started practicing anesthesia from that day onwards, your phone will not stop ringing. The next thing, this is year five, you’ve just finished like into year five, out of which three years you were studying and preparing and two years into practice. Now let’s talk about year 10, you have completed your MD anesthesia and seven years of practice.
And let’s talk about work-life balance at this point, because you have been running around and making money and doing your practice. But now at year 10, you feel like I should have some kind of work-life balance. So this work-life balance is also something which is absolutely in your hands.
If you like working a lot, and you want to do a lot of cases, you can absolutely start your day at 6 am in the morning and finish it at midnight. But if you want to give time to your family, you absolutely have the liberty to take cases only from eight o’clock to four o’clock and let your surgeon know that I am not available for emergencies. So kindly do arrange for someone else to do emergency calls.
And yes, surgeons are understanding. That is why I am married one. And they definitely will give you that option.
If you’re a good anesthetist, if you’re someone that they can rely on, they will keep a standby anesthetist for emergencies and they will call you for routine cases. Having said that one more thing in year 10, especially for females, this branch is very, very good because there as now in major cities, we have a lot of corporate hospitals coming up. And these corporate hospitals have work timings which are fixed.
So you start your day at eight and you finish your OT by generally four or five o’clock after which no one will call you. And this is the best part about anesthesia the time you leave your hospital and go, no one is going to call you back to have a look at your patient. Once the patient is out of anesthesia, you are shifted to the recovery room or to the ICU.
Unless it is a major emergency or they want to get any details about anesthesia, the patient has now been transferred to the intensivist to manage. So that is one good thing. You finish your day with a calm mind and you don’t have to go back to the hospital.
Once a week, you will have emergency duties. Yes, this is a norm in every corporate or government hospital to have once once-a-week duty which you have committed to. So you know that those days you are going to be busy.
So these are all the pros about anesthesia. One pro I would like to add is for people who are looking to go abroad, but who feel that right now after MBBS, they cannot go abroad because of financial issues or some other reasons. One of the easiest branches to go abroad is anesthesia.
So the minute you finish your MD or DNB, you have to train for one year, you have to give a few exams and you can easily get into UK. So the UK has FRCA which has a lot of jobs available. They really need anesthetists and the second place is you can go to UAE if you don’t want to go very far from India.
So again, UAE has a lot of opportunities for anesthetists. US definitely is difficult to get in. So these are all the pros.
So I’ve given you a 10 year plan and I don’t think anyone should not take up this branch if you’re getting it. Now talking about the cons, a lot of people tell me that ma’am we don’t have any patient contact. We don’t talk to the patients as soon as the patient comes and we put him off to sleep and when he wakes up, he only remembers the surgeon, he doesn’t remember us.
Now let me tell you that may be a con for you at this point in time, but maybe three to five years down the line when you deal with a lot of patients, you will actually see it as a pro because that takes extra energy, extra efforts from your side to convince the patients. Nowadays, patients read so many things on Google, there’s that and come.
So even a surgeon or a physician takes a lot of time to convince them about many things.
In anesthesia, no one will read up much and come. They only know that you’re going to put them off to sleep and you’re going to wake them up. So that is in a way it is a pro and if you feel that you don’t have patient contact, don’t forget you have to see the patient prior to surgery in pre-op evaluation.
So that is the time that you can give to the patients and those are your 15 minutes of patient contact. The second con that everyone feels is it’s a dependent branch, you’re dependent on the surgeon completely for cases and for time. Let me tell you, it is easier to form a team with the surgeon as compared to going out marketing yourselves and getting patients if you’re taking other branches.
So what happens is usually when you’re training, there will be colleague surgeons who will be training as well and when you’ll get out of the same institute, most of them end up forming a team so that you all can work together. If you find 2-3 like-minded surgeons, you can work with them and they will definitely keep giving you work and you don’t need to have your own setup, you don’t need to have your own clinic. Like literally the day you get your MD or DNB passing certificate in hand, just buy a set of anesthesia bag with laryngoscopes, whatever equipment you need and you can start off your practice.
You don’t need to invest in anesthesia at all. The third thing is, ma’am, what about emergencies? Again, as I told you, the emergency is absolutely up to you. To be very honest, in my branch, I see a lot of male colleagues who run around for emergencies because they can do so.
On the other hand, female colleagues want to take care of the house, and family as well. So they happily refer the cases to their male colleagues saying I will not be able to make it for the emergency, can you go for it? So that is where you can manage. The next con is that people say is that anaesthesia gives you less money.
No, anesthesia gives you as much money as you work. So even if the surgeon is earning more for the case, maybe in a day he will be able to do one or two cases only. But as an anesthetist, you may be able to do four or five cases.
So eventually the whole thing evens out. So you’re making as much money as the surgeon. The only thing is the money is equal to how much effort you put in.
So if you work more, you learn more. If you want, if you’re not more about earning, then you can work less and save time. So that is another thing.
And the last thing I want to add is MD versus DNB. Most of the DNB institutes for branches which have cutting like OBGYN, surgery, ortho, I’m not very sure about, how many skills they give. But as far as I have seen, they don’t give much of cutting.
But in anesthesia, everyone is very nice and chill. And the departments themselves will give you from day one, they will give you mass folding, laryngoscopy, spinal, epidural. So whether you take MD or whether you take DNB, you are going to get enough skill set at the end of three years.
So I don’t see much of a difference in both of them. The last thing that I would like to add, is two last things. One is if you’re planning to take up anesthesia, but you have no clue about the branch, please go and attend with an anesthetist or in your own institute for at least one week under someone so that you have an idea what exactly is done in anesthesia because some people find it a little boring.
Let me tell you, you will find it initially boring. But when the case is totally your responsibility, that is when you will be very vigilant. And that boredom will definitely go out of the picture.
So spend one week under an anesthetist to see what all they work and if this is the kind of life you would like to live. Second thing, if you do end up taking anesthesia, please do subscribe to the conceptual anesthesia app. So this is an app that we have for MD, DNB students, and it will help you prepare from day one itself for your anesthesia residency.
And that’s it. Also, I think I’ve covered most of them. I can say from this this, I just want to say one thing.
Anesthesia people, Dr. Janhvi, I’m most chilled out. Gaurav sir, you have multiple reasons to say so. My wife is an anesthetist.
I can say that I sometimes feel guilty about why I didn’t take anesthesia. Sometimes actually, even Dr. Amrit tells me that he told me when I was taking up a branch, he said if I had a choice, I would go back and do anesthesia. So that was the reason I took it up.
So, ma’am, you have got two potential buyers for conceptual anesthesia app now. Sir, Dr. Janhvi has made such a convincing case. I think anesthesia is going to get a very high cutoff this time.
All the cons, she has converted to pros. That is what. He said negative as positive.
I think I think Dr. Praveen, you wanted to say something. Universe boss. It is like this, we all speak well about branches.
Because all of us are in love with our branches. Children have different questions. Their question is, how much money will I get for MD? How many jobs do I get? Now tell me, how much do I get? I mean, all of us should tell them because this is what they are really concerned about.
Before Dr. Janhvi answeres, she said a very nice thing. And that is something that people tend to forget or overlook. That finally, what amount of money you make in any of the branches is dependent on you.
You people think that radiology is 5 lakhs, ortho is 4 lakhs. There is no such rate list anywhere. What exactly you are doing, what setup you are running, whether you are comfortable running your own setup, whether you are okay taking care of managerial duties, whether you are open to opening an inpatient setup.
All these things are finally going to determine the money that you make. There is no direct relationship between the branch and money. So, Janhvi, can you answer that? Yes.
So, I would like to give a range for this because it depends on where you are located as compared to like South or Mumbai, there is more pay on Delhi side. So, the starting range would be 1 lakh rupees, 1 to 1.2 lakh rupees. And this is immediately post MD, DNB.
And even in Delhi, it can go up to 1.3 to 1.5 lakh rupees depending on the institute that you join. Government institutes,the central government pay around this scale. If you talk about like government hospitals, and municipal corporation hospitals, they are slightly lesser, maybe somewhere around 90,000 to 1 lakh.
But let’s take an average of 1 lakh as soon as you get out. This is a fresher. If you go three years post after that, in anesthesia, you can earn anywhere between 1.5 to 2 lakh rupees for a job.
So, this is a job. But if you start freelancing then, again, the sky is the limit. You can earn anywhere between say 2.5 to 5 lakh rupees depending on how much you run around.
So, freelancing, again, is totally effort dependent. If you look at corporate hospitals, let me give you a cap also for those of you who feel like, how much will I earn? Let’s say, how much will I earn by reaching the professor level in corporate? So, that would be somewhere around 4 to 4.5 lakh rupees or 5 lakh rupees. But there are some private hospitals which will have like their prime anesthetist, which now this is saying too much, but this may even go up to 10 lakh rupees or 12 lakh rupees as head of the department.
All this is per month. But all this is at the age of 50, 55, 60. Dr. Janhavi, another thing that I will say is, I mean, what I’ve seen is a lot of anesthesia people come together and they provide ICU services to the smaller hospitals.
Yes. And that is one. I mean, see, this is how entrepreneurial you are.
If you want to get into all those things, if you want to tie up with the hospitals, then effectively there is no limit. Limits, which Dr. Janhavi is talking about, are of jobs. She’s talking about a corporate hospital where there is a pay structure.
Right. So, this is something you have to understand you don’t equate a branch with money. Finally, it’s the same thing after an hour.
Yes, it’s always the same, sir. That’s what Goga sir said earlier. Dr. Zainab, if I may come back to you and ask the same question, that a lot of students take up radiology for the reason that it pays very well.
So, I have two questions to you. What is the average paycheck that radiologists can take back home after the MDs are over? And secondly, is there a ceiling? Is there a ceiling in radiology? Yeah, I mean, I agree with Dr. Janhavi here. Plus, I think we should close the session now because she has convinced everybody.
So, basically, I think the pay here will depend on what kind of setup you are. Even in radiology, once you finish your MD or DNB, if you are in a hospital setup, or government hospital setup, then it’s a standard faculty salary. Like in Delhi, it will be somewhere close to 2 lakhs per month.
So, that’s the government salary. Even as a faculty, there’s a cap and you don’t go beyond 2.5 per month. So, that’s for government.
In corporate, the pay for young radiologists is higher. That’s why people have this misconception that you get more money in radiology. The starting pay in radiology is higher and then it plateaus.
That’s one thing all of you have to understand. So, the starting pay will be close to 3.5 to 4 lakhs if you are in a good corporate private setup. And it kind of plateaus there.
The highest you will reach is, you know, 10 lakhs, 8 to 10 lakhs. And that will be again in, you know, similar to anesthesia in your 50s and when you worked in a hospital for a long time. So, that range in private for a young radiologist is what is attractive.
If you have your own setup, your own centre, then the sky is the limit, you know. Then as many patients as you can do. But that is a little investment-heavy.
That’s the only thing because these machines, ultrasound machines is a little less expensive. But to open your own CT MRI setup will take a lot of capital. So, you can’t do that just fresh out of your MD.
You will minimum need 5 years of practice outside to understand the system before you open a full-fledged centre. But if you have that in place, then there is no gap. Literally, you can earn as much as you want.
And, you know, depending on the patient load, the pay keeps increasing as you move to the periphery. That is something which is definitely true for radiology. If you are in Delhi, you will not earn as much as somebody who’s in a remote town in, you know, Rajasthan or Gujarat.
That is something which here, as close you are to the metro, the lesser will be the pay. That’s how radiology works. Demand increases in periphery.
But then we have to remember that running a centre is akin to, you know, running a system. I mean, students at their age do not realize this, you know, but then you have to talk to the doctors, ensure that you are getting patients. And then there are many things involved there.
Another headache for radiologists is PCP and DT, which I can briefly talk about. If you feel that I can open my ultrasound centre and I’ll be set, you will not be set. You will be, there is a lot of harassment, if I can call it, in our country, you know, as far as PCP and DT, lots of record keeping goes into play.
And there are many, many things you have to be very careful about. So most of the time when you’re fresh out of MD or out of SR ship, you feel, no, I don’t want to get into this mess right now. Let me first understand the system, you know.
So that is why it is good. It’s a good idea to first work in a center or a corporate and understand how things work and then go on to, you know, develop your own setup. So if I may suggest students, if you got a very good rank and you can get anything, don’t take radiology just because you can take it.
I mean, it’s a great branch, of course, but as we have said multiple times, that if you always wanted to become an orthopedician or medicine person or surgeon and you got a great rank, please stick to what you always wanted to do. If you were that clear in your head. Otherwise, if you were not clear, of course, radiology pays really well and is really fast.
That is one thing. But if you really like one branch, please stick to it. Medicine is a long game.
I mean, you will continue to practice till you are 70 years or 75 years and show that you are doing something that you love. Yeah, if I can summarize in the last one line is that if you have a surgical bent of mind and wanted to be a surgeon, don’t take up radiology, you will regret it. If you have a MD medicine kind of mind and you are confused now that I’m getting both medicine and radio, which I feel is a very big confusion for most students.
If you like studying, if diagnosis-making fascinates you, go for radiology, you will love it. If managing patient gives you the kick, don’t take radiology. So that is how simple it is.