Sabir Taj, MD

Job interviewing and buying a car gives me the same nauseous, viceral feeling. I don’t like either, and that is because both processes have involved tactics that I was not accustomed to. My very first professional job did not have much negotiating. I got a phone call from a non-md who did the hiring; a woman who I later found out did all the…[Read more]

Most frustrating, time consuming problem in my practice is non-unified, unequal productivity allotment. As a private group, the mantra is always, equal work and equal pay. But, t when it comes to counting RVU vs time spent for “work” there seems to be a huge discrepancy. This comes from the non-unity of the group, the us vs them, diagnostic vs IR.…[Read more]

Our group is very democratic, and I want to believe that if I wanted to access to group financial statements and my own profit/loss numbers I would be able to access them. The reason I have not done that is that the leaders of the group have been very transparent about the groups earnings/losses, future direction, hiring/firing, etc. These are all…[Read more]

Hi Karin. Which year did you graduate from Rush? I was class of 2007. It’s changed a lot since I graduated. Was just there for our 10 year reunion. Our practice covers GBMC, I’m sure you’ve interacted with some of my colleagues from Advanced Radiology.

Hello. My name is Sabir Taj. I went to med school at Rush University in Chicago. I did my prelim year at Illinois Masonic in Chicago. I completed residency at Loyola University in Chicago. My fellowship was in Boston, broke the Chicago trend, at MGH in IR.  Job market was tough in 2013 when I graduated, so was very lucky to find a 100% IR job w…[Read more]