Sima Banerjee

@TheRealDoctorOs @AetnaHelp OMG are you serious? That’s like the most basic indication 🙄

Overturned , thank you @AetnaHelp 💪🏽

The Summer 2025 @womenirads Newsletter is here! The WIR Section is proud to share the group’s latest updates and deliver resources for our community. Dive in and see how we’re advancing the field of #IRad together. brnw.ch/21wV2fl

📢 Congress must act! Specialty physicians are facing unsustainable Medicare cuts — a 33% payment drop since 2001 when adjusted for inflation. It's time to stabilize physician payments and support value-based care. We’re on the Hill with @SpecialtyDocs for the #ASMFlyIn today to support the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act (H.R. 879/S. 1640)! 🩺 Protect independent practices 📉 Stop year-to-year payment cuts 💡 Encourage participation in value-based models 👉 Urge your legislators to cosponsor today. sirweb.org/advocacy/actio… #ASMFlyIn #FixMedicareNow #ValueBasedCare #PhysicianAdvocacy

The @AARP   bulletin today asks, “Where have all the doctors gone?” as more patients find themselves seeing PAs and NPs instead of medical doctors. I believe it’s no accident—policies are pushing out physicians to cut costs, leaving patients with fewer advocates and more confusion.

There’s a reason docs are walking — if not running — away from #medicine . Imagine doing 10-20 yrs of education AFTER high school, studying hard to be at top of your class, & then calling it quits within a few yrs of finishing all that education. It’s really a loss to society.

@JamesHBlackMD @farkomd 🤣

@farkomd Any editor who sends out reviewer invites over the holidays should be fired ….

Call IR

The @Saudi2034bid is inspiring so many young footballers with the promise of #GrowingTogether and it was a pleasure to meet some of those kids who are dreaming of welcoming the world to Saudi Arabia in 2034. 🏆

The birth of interventional medicine. Bill Cook meets Charles Dotter at the 1963 @RSNA annual meeting. The rest is history. @CookMedical

At a Swiss Christmas market, people warm themselves by eating bread stuffed with melted cheese, such as fondue or raclette 📹 mike_in_geneva

@kmadass @HowThingsWork_ My techs take offense if I don’t let them put my gloves on me. But I double glove, and it’s tough when someone else is double gloving you. Maybe they could come up with a double glove, where you have full range of motion, proprioception and retain finesse. I would buy that.

@HowThingsWork_ How much more waste of money could we show?

A machine to help medical staff put gloves on. 🏥

@kmadass @HowThingsWork_ 🤣🤣🤣

Major driver of healthcare cost

Andrew Crummy, MD died today. Developer of DSA, founding member and president of @SIRspecialists, beloved teacher, and author of the first radiology text I owned. He was a giant who bequeathed interventional radiologists of today an incredible specialty and bright future. RIP.

Urothelial cancer with psoas invasion. Hematuria, anemia & poor renal function. Treated with 250 micron super selective embolization. Result, decreased hematuria, improved blood count and bonus- improved renal function !! #IRAD Redirecting blood flow, 2 where blood need 2 go 👉

@Dr_Sudi @SIRspecialists Nicely spared IIV

1/3 20 yo M construction worker referred by #urology for 1 yr h/o left testicular pain, back pain, & urinary freq. No varicocele/torsion. Standing reflux US neg. Must be cautious when considering NIVL stent in young adult d/t long-term uncertainty w/stents. #irad @SIRspecialists

Origin of internal iliac nicely spared. Agree, easy to place a stent, never removed one!! Think twice

After initial shifting to glue for PAE, can vouch for benefit in timing of intervention & radiation dose. Early anecdotal experience- VRR & clinical success is also better. but will wait for more experience before concluding that. Other operator's experience? #PAE #ALARA

Abstract: "Outcomes of Percutaneous Endobiliary Radiofrequency Ablation in Managing Resistant Benign Biliary Strictures: A Retrospective Analysis." Accepted by the British Journal of Radiology. academic.oup.com/bjr/advance-ar… @alihusnain186, @ahsunR, @allison_reiland, @riadsalemIR

Our article has been published in CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology—featuring the longest follow-up in the literature! The intriguing findings of this study could shed light on hypotheses for future research. #irad Further details: link.springer.com/article/10.100…