Radiologist, do your homework before you do good deeds

Radiologists looking to lend their skills to people in developing regions should know certain things before booking their travel. For example, in Tanzania, “you can be fined and even detained if you enter the country on a tourist visa to provide medical services.”

The quote is from Woojin Kim, MD, of Penn Medicine, one of three rads who work with Rad-Aid and shared insights from their experiences at SIIM 2016 last week.

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