#radtechlife

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Normal Saturday morning reading. Really, it’s just a bunch of drawings of vaginas and penises. #TheThingsIDoForCECredits

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Position available: Seeking highly motivated, well-trained individuals to operate advanced technical equipment in a chaotic environment, producing images that are nothing short of miraculous from the insides of bodies of people who currently happen to be patients The applicant must be able to get screaming children to lay still, nauseated adults to keep from vomiting horrible-tasting contrast, and 22-year-old marines to submit to having an IV placed. Hours are long, and include nights and weekends. Pay is pretty good, but believe me, you’re going to earn it. You will see tense anxiety, heartbreaking illness, and tragic injury. You will often be the first person to discover a terrible diagnosis and you will have to keep a poker face and tell the patient that they will get the results from their doctor. This will tear you up inside. Some of the people you image won’t survive the week. You will be kicked, insulted, and thrown up on. You must be able to withstand the sight of blood. You will work with some demanding doctors whom you will never be able to please. Patients will tell you one thing, and then when you go in with the doctors they will tell them something completely different. You will train some really green residents, some REALLY green residents, whom you will patiently guide through some rough call nights. You will often feel tired, unappreciated, and overwhelmed. Sometimes you will screw up, and you will feel terrible about it. But you will do some incredible work. You will capture images that, in all the history of human kind, have only become possible in the last few decades. You will create beautiful images and you will make it look easy. But you will be there for people in desperate circumstances in their time of need, providing some of the most valuable services they will ever receive. You will do your work with skill, and you will be proud of your work. You will be fiercely proud of your work. You will work with people you truly admire. You will learn from some of the world’s experts, and you will teach many more future worlds experts. You will become friends with many of your co-workers-people you will be proud to call your colleagues. Because of what you do, fathers will be able to walk their daughters down the aisle. Mothers will sing their children to sleep at night. You will be part of a team that will snatch people from the jaws of death, time and time again. It will be hard. It will be extremely humbling. But it will be amazing. Position available: Radiologic Technologist Thank you for applying. This speech was given to the radiologic technologists at Stanford Health Care by David B. Larson, MD, MBA, Associate Professor of Radiology, Associate Chair of Performance Improvement, Department of Radiology on November 11, 2014

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This makes me happy in my soul.

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Don’t Ever Lie To a RadTech

So, Kanina lang may patient akong dumating na for Whole Abdomen Ultrasound, 12:30pm na sya (YUNG TIPONG KAKAIN NA KO NG LUNCH SYA DUMATING), usually talaga eh morning ginagawa ang mga ultrasound procedures na may fasting since maraming di kinakaya ang 8 to 10 hours na walang kain.

So, itong si kuya tinanong ko kung nakapag fasting

Non Verbatim:

Me: Kuya nakapag prepare ka ba for the ultrasound?

Kuya: Opo.

Me: Sige nga kuya kelan ka huling kumain? (Pabiro pero may halong sarcasm.)

Kuya: 1 pa po ng madaling araw.

Okay. since nakapag prep si kuya pinapasok ko na sa ultrasound room. So inuna ko agad yung liver. napansin ko agad nawala yung gallbladder.

Me: Kuya, Anong huli mong kinain?

Kuya: Tinapay lang.

Me: Anong oras?

Nagdududa na ko that time na kung tinapay lang ba talaga yung kinain nya since hindi ko makita yung Gallbladder, contracted na kasi. Fatty and Oily foods cause the GB to contract, kaya di mo makikkita talaga. 

Kuya: 1 nga po ng madaling araw.

Me: Sure ka po?

Kuya: Hindi, ang totoo nyan 8:30 ng umaga.

Me: Tinapay talaga? Anong huling kinain mo at anong oras kuya yung totoo po?

Kuya: itlog saka kanin.

Me: Kuya naman sabi ko po 8 hours fasting tapos no fatty and oily foods eh, Si sir talaga.

Kuya: Akala ko kasi makakalusot eh.

Walanjo, ganyan, Yan tayo eh.. Dyan tayo nadadali sa mga akala, akala mo ikaw lang may iba pala. Akala mo gusto ka pinapaasa ka lang pala. Akala mo Ikaw na eh nilalandi ka lang pala yung totoo isa ka lang sa mga choices nya in short RESERBA ka.

Ayan napahugot tuloy ako.