Nuclear medicine in the 21st century: Integration with other specialties

From: The Journal of Nuclear Medicine | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Integration"-the watchword ofthe 1960s civil rights movement, and now a catchword of modern business managementis also a concept becoming more and more frequently used by nuclear medicine leaders, scientists and industry leaders. Just as academic disciplines, telecommunications firms, hospitals, and other businesses have been merging and reconfiguring their organizations, many nuclear medicine physicians are contending that nuclear medicine needs to integrate with other specialties such as cardiology, oncology and surgery in order to increase the demand for nuclear medicine procedures in ...

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