I chose these pictures because it's how I feel about my job. My friends always say I just sit there and look at x-rays and I do all kinds of crazy different things. They say I have this medial look with scrubs and the shoes. My mom just thinks what I do is awesome. She finds it so interesting and always wants me to tell her different stories about my day. She really thinks I am a doctor and always calls me asking crazy questions I have no clue to the answer. I thought the society one was funny and fits perfect. Radiology techs always get confused for Radiologist. They are the only ones who can read the x-rays, we just take them. I always get asked if I see something wrong with someones x-rays. I am not allowed to answer this because we aren't qualified to answer this. The boss one was really just a joke picture, our bosses know that we work very hard. People just like to joke that they wish they could sleep all day and not be at work. What I think I do is amazing. It is so awesome to work with such a powerful and strange thing. Who would think sending x-rays through someone would create an image. What I actually do all day is 90% chest x-rays. We don't always get the crazy situations people see on TV. A lot of chest x-rays all day long. I learned that I really love my job and enjoy what I do. It's fun to get a little humor out of the situation and not always look at the sad things about our jobs!
I totally agree with your "mom" picture. My mom is almost sickly proud of me! I have seen first hand to your comment on patients asking "What do you see?" I didn't know until recently the difference between Tech and Radiologist but I would say that 50% of patients ask the tech to describe what they see. Every time the tech has to explain that he/she cannot read the results and yet the patient persists that they can. I also did not know that some X-rays can last all day long! Would you care to elaborate on how these are performed?
ReplyDeleteTyler, some x-rays can take all day because there can be a delay between the images. Sometimes the patients have to drink barium and we have to wait for it to travel so far in the bowels. Some patients bowels more very fast and others move very slow. So it depends on the patient and when it reaches a specific part in the bowel. Hope that helps a litte!
Delete