Over recent years, particularly over the last 5 years, a big concern has come to the forefront in the Radiology Community, “The radiologist’s invisibility”. Different strategies have been proposed to address it. If patients, other doctors and ourselves do not understand our role in radiology, in patient care and in the Health System, our future becomes uncertain. If radiologists become invisible, we will become replaceable, without a future. 1.- Loss of the Radiologist’s visibility Since the development of CT in the 1970s and MRI in...

SERAM launched several initiatives to become more visible to patients and the most important initiative was the development of InfoRadiología, created as a patient space in our Radiology Society. 1.-What is InfoRadiologia? Inforadiología is a Web page created by the SERAM (http://seram.es) that pursues familiarizing the public and the media with the radiologists’ invaluable role in medicine and healthcare, as a webpage to bond both patients’ and radiologists’ interests and as a space to deal with questions of both patients and their families, and to...

1.- There is no future for the speciality of radiology if we do not value our patients and do not share with them our reports and experience. 2.-Radiology Societies in general and radiologists in particular, must make ourselves visible to our patients and colleagues putting mutual and direct communication as the main value in our interrelationship. 3.- Social Media sites are very useful tools for the implementation of the above paragraphs. Let us use them. 4.- Health Apps, Social Media and Internet are complementary but...

Milagros Otero-Garcia Complexo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago de Compostela [email protected] Francisco Javier Rodriguez- Recio Hospital general de Segovia [email protected] Pablo Valdés Solís Hospital Costal del Sol. Marbella [email protected] Joan Gimenez- Ruiz Clínica Corachan Barcelona [email protected] Jose Luis del Cura -Rodriguez Hospital Basurto. Bilbao [email protected]

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