All indications point to 2021 being the year of the return path of this boomerang event that sent us all in a different direction in 2020. And while we set our glide path toward returning to normal it seems that the place where we started does not exist anymore. The world as we understood it to be has changed. The tragedy of the pandemic has reached into most of our lives affecting our families, our health and even our careers. The death toll has been unimaginable.

Radiologists — who have long been professionals in the metaphorical and literal back-rooms of healthcare — have recently found themselves in the limelight. Whether as figures at the forefront of legislative and clinical changes, or educators in the public sphere, radiologists are shaking up medicine for the better by tackling some of the most pressing issues in healthcare. 

Historically when a patient had an elevated PSA (prostate specific antigen) test their urologist would take the next step — a prostate biopsy to determine if the increased PSA level was due to cancer or another condition such as infection or benign prostatic hyperplasia. These biopsies were performed using standard ultrasound to identify the prostate.