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With all do respect to Menigioma123’s post et al. regarding Quantum Radiology this post is completely inaccurate. In the last 20 years only 2 associate rads did not make partner as we hire very solid good fits who have an engaged ownership mentality. QR is a 100% physician owned and run independent practice with 0% PE/Corporate ownership/control. In fact, besides being able to maintain our high quality one of the main reasons we did not sell is in fact our associates- we value our associates and doing that to them is unethical as they were recruited to be eventual partners and full owners and we did not take away their careers and give them a “job” as well as markedly limit their future earning power. How we value our associates also pertains to the operations. It is 100% untrue that they never see the big “mother ship” hospital and only go to the smaller hospitals- week one of their careers the associates start going to the biggest mothership hospital and do even amounts of their subspecialized areas equal to any partner. Call requirements for the most senior partner is the same as the most junior associate and rotations locations and percentages regarding doing any general radiology or subspecialized radiology are all evenly divided between partners and associates (as it should be). Yes, their is a 4 year partnership tract as the city/Atlanta moved that direction 12+ years ago (previously it was 3 yrs) and it hasn’t been changed because it would be unfair to the associates and partners that did the 4 years and we have zero difficulty hiring and hire our first/second choices from top programs. We have been hiring around 10 solid rads a year for some time now because we are in a fast growing system that is doing very well not because of attrition and we easily fill 100% of our spots with stellar rads every year. Rads at QR are very happy and our attrition rate is very low, mostly through retirement, if a younger rad leaves, which is rare, it’s almost always due to family reasons, not QR. Our associates almost all make partner and our partners almost all spend their entire career at QR and the newest partner has equal vacation, voting rights, and income as any senior partner- democratic and fair to a fault. We work hard, as do all rads and large groups these days, but we are a very data driven group that is very patient centered/focused on quality and service and the day to day work is very reasonable while the call work, although obviously harder, is managed appropriately operationally with data analytics to solve volume issue trends. The practice is extremely efficient with over 20 hired radiology assistants that handle all the scut work (calling results, getting docs on the phone, answering calls, etc..). Burnout is not rampant and almost no one is divorced or miserable, this is a flat out lie, rads at QR are happy and enjoying their careers. The numbers in that post regarding salary, vacation amounts, call frequency, volumes, etc.. are all inaccurate, associate pay is robust for the local market and goes up each year along with vacation and the partners consistently earn in the top 1% of all radiology practices nationwide with consistent generous vacation. QR is an extremely well run, 100% physician owned, democratic, fair, collegial, high quality, progressive, patient-centered practice that was ranked in the exemplary top 100 groups by the Radiology Business Journal as #1 in Georgia and #18 in the entire United States. Do not listen to inaccurate/untruthful and likely agenda driven posts, ask around and talk to people that know the group and our reputation. If at all interested in discussing QR in greater detail (for instance why we turned down PE) even if not interested in a career with QR, please feel free to private message me through this post with your contact info and I will be happy to give you a call and discuss QR and radiology in general. We are very proud of what we have built at QR and all the good it does for the patients, community, clinical programs, and health care system it serves. And in regards to the the untruthful agenda driven posts I end with this quote:
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.”
—Albert Einstein
