Jobs are difficult to get these days and it end ups being more about who you know, not what you know. I have my foot in the door at the VA because of a former colleague. She actually helped me get my first CT job right out of school and now she’s helping me out again. I guess I’ve impressed her somewhere along the way. This is an important ...

Meatless Monday is a new health trend and it has multiple health and environmental benefits. Going meatless once a week may reduce your risk of chronic preventable conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. It can also help reduce your carbon footprint and save previous resources like fresh water and fossil fuel.Research ...

The more people I talk to about CT the more aware I have become that they do not know the differences between CT and MRI. They often think they are the same modality. I have been trying to educate people about the many ways in which they differ. If any of you watch the show Breaking Bad on AMC you know that the main character, Walt, has ...

February is American Heart Month and we all need to sit up and take notice, especially women. Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Smokers, diabetics, and the obese are at higher risk. If you are having heart related symptoms and visit your doctor, any ...

Each November all of us in the radiology field celebrate Rad Tech Week. This takes place to commemorate the anniversary of the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen back on Nov. 8, 1895. It highlights the important role medical imaging plays in health care.At my hospital in Tampa, Fla., we receive goody bags with anything from specialty ...

I find myself becoming more and more affected by the number of homeless people I see each day. They are on every major street corner in Tampa. One corner now has a whole family asking for money. How can parents subject their children to that? I guess they are hoping that tugs harder on the heart strings of potential donors. As I was enjoying ...

Last week one of my favorite co-workers had a birthday. Considering she had to work on her special day, I did everything I could to make her happy. I brought her a gift and lots of chocolate, our favorite pastime. We used to work the graveyard shift together and often chocolate was the only thing that got us through those long nights. She ...

This past weekend I encountered a frustrating situation. We had a patient come over for a scan that necessitated IV contrast and thus an IV. As I was talking to this patient she told me that she's a very hard stick and it took the RN a while to get the current access. As I flushed the IV it felt weird, like something was off. I proceeded to flush ...

A hospital is a microcosm of the real world with regard to class. Rarely do you see a doctor acknowledge someone in housekeeping or even a nurse or CT tech for that matter while walking down the hall. This has always bothered me because I wasn't raised this way. My parents taught me that all people are the same no matter which uniform they ...

As CT technologists we often wonder if the scan we are performing is really necessary. Do we not fully understand the severity of the illness, have we not taken a thorough history, or are we thinking about the potential unnecessary radiation the patient is about to receive. These are all things that pop into our minds from time to ...