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For radiology practices to thrive, radiologists need to expand their intellectual and professional horizons beyond the boundaries of radiology. Detection and analysis of lesions, formulation of differential diagnosis, making recommendations for further evaluation, and performing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are the core of radiology practice, but if those doing the work do not learn to see the larger sociological, economic, political, and philosophical contexts in which they work, they will likely play little role in governing themselves, instead coming to resemble passengers on a professional bus whose course they do not control or even understand.