Outsourcing seems easy because you charge someone more and pay less to outsource.
In my world one of the things that’s outsourced in incredible amounts is the reporting of CT scans.
I’ve just seen an advert in a dental publication suggesting that we can now have our CT scans reported by someone else (highly qualified) for ‘from £50’.
That seems easy, saves a lot of time and ticks all the compliance boxes.
The risk with outsourcing is that we descale and lose our intellectual property.
It’s expensive for me to report CT scans because it takes an amount of my time but more than that, it takes an amount of my experience.
I have reported literally thousands of CT scans since 2009 and feel I have a skill in this area beyond that of people who have done less and reflected less on what they’re doing.
There is a group of patients who value the expertise that I have in looking at their CT scan and giving them advice, explanation and forward treatment planning based on the experience that I have.
I could outsource that but then I would give my IP to someone else.
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