A UK-trained musculoskeletal (MSK) radiologist relocating back to India may face numerous challenges while setting up subspecialty MSK radiology services. The National Health Service (NHS) and the Indian healthcare system are inherently different from each other in finance, governance, administration, and clinical services provision. The NHS can offer numerous opportunities to an MSK radiologist, including a diverse case mixture, protected work time divided between direct clinical care and supporting professional – academic, management, leadership, and continuous professional development – activities, flexible work hours, five days a week work pattern, continuous reflective learning from missed findings, and opportunities for advanced training in MSK tumour work and complex interventions. Indian MSK radiology services, compared to the NHS, are relatively curtailed and limited to metro cities with very few centres offering dedicated MSK imaging services and image-guided interventions. From an economic perspective, MSK radiologists in both countries earn more or less similar, given high taxation rates in the UK. Although Indian radiologists may face pressures to provide rapid radiology reports from the management, patients, and relatives, one can enjoy better image quality, liberty to customize scans, ease to start new intervention services, necessary breaks during work hours, and extended family support. A re-relocated MSK radiologist can survive and thrive in Indian healthcare, primarily corporate medical institutions, if one can strike a balance between professional and personal life.