Dr Karan Singh loves his job as a registrar in nuclear medicine but he thinks there isn’t enough exposure to the specialty during medical school and basic training. In this podcast we spend a day in his department at Prince of Wales Hospital Sydney and get a taste of the many different referrals that come his way; a bone scan for a young man experiencing leg spasms after recovering from a car crash; myocardial perfusion imaging for an elderly gentleman with coronary artery disease; staging for prostate and breast cancer; and radiation therapy for a toxic multinodular goiter. The “reality audio” format gives a good sense of the daily tasks and responsibilities involved in this career pathway.

Credits

Dr Karan Singh
Staff and patients at Prince of Wales Nuclear Medicine and PET Department

Production
Produced by Mic Cavazzini DPhil. Music licenced from Epidemic Sound includes ‘Salty Sails’ and ‘Nuna’ by Sindrandi, ‘Between Four Eyes’ by Czar Donic, ‘Organic Textures 2’ by Johannes Bornlöf and ‘Punjabi Swag’ by Aks and Lakshmi. Image by JohnnyGreig licenced through Getty Images. 

Editorial feedback kindly provided by RACP physicians Jamie Bellinge, Joseph Lee, Sern Wei Yeoh, Zac Fuller and Stephen Bacchi.

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