This PCP is frustrated that radiologists are blurting out diagnoses and suggesting treatments after imaging tests:

Several months ago a radiologist, after performing a bone scan on a patient with a PSA of 70, went out and told the assembled family that my patient was “full of cancer.” Then he suggested a treatment direction which was somewhat different than what I had already discussed with the patient. Just the other day I received a call from a patient who had gone to have an MRI of the brain and she called our office afterward to inform us that the radiologist said she had a brain tumor and that she needed a CT scan, which was scheduled the next day and would we send an order for it.

I am all for communication with our patients. But I do not understand this sudden desire by radiologists to interfere with my doctor-patient relationship. Are they billing for a consultation along with the procedure now? Do they just wish they were actually engaged in ongoing care with patients?