Keeping Up with the Radiologists -- Episode 15: Categorical change in radiology

Nick Bryan, MD, PhD, neuroradiologist and former chair of radiology at University of Pennsylvania Health Systems, remembers 20% cuts and a two-year department lockdown in Episode 15 of AuntMinnie's Keeping Up with the Radiologists podcast. Getting through that unusual era of "financial disaster" meant major changes. People were uncomfortable, Bryan recalls. With host Saurabh (Harry) Jha, MD, Bryan walks through the first moments of uncertainty around the year 2000 as then-Penn President Judy Rodin enacted change that would take Bryan and his colleagues into the creation of Penn Medicine. Beyond the seismic shift into the new era of Penn Medicine, the stories in this episode can be divided into five segments. Each characterizes a type of categorical change that Bryan observed and worked through during his 50 years of practice.