Who’s Reading Your X-Ray?
“Sanjay Saini was not prepared for the hate mail. A radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Saini thought he had found a clever way to relieve an acute shortage of specialists who could read X-rays and M.R.I. scans. The hospital would beam images electronically from some scans to India, to be worked on by radiologists there.
But the arrangement, made late last year with a company in India, has touched off a minor furor. It turns out that even American radiologists, with their years of training and annual salaries of $250,000 or more, worry about their jobs moving to countries with lower wages, in much the same way that garment knitters, blast-furnace operators and data-entry clerks do.”
Interesting how outsourcing $250,000 USD annual income work causes a bigger stink than outsourcing $18,000 USD clerk positions or $50,000 technical writing positions or even $76,000 USD programming positions. Still, this is an excellent detailed article about the pros and cons and the market forces driving outsourcing using the internet and other technologies. From the NYTimes (free registration required; free content is free only a short while). Outsourcing may not be bad (or good) but it does cause disruptions that have to be dealt with.
URLs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/16/business/yourmoney/16hosp.html
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