Now that we are back in Florida, I am eagerly looking for a job. Thanks to a wonderful former colleague, I am now in the hiring process for a CT position at the VA Hospital. If any of you have ever applied for a government job you know it can be a lengthy process. They have told me it can take up to three months. I am trying to be patient as my ...

Does reality ever measure up with expectations? We see something and want to buy it hoping it will make us happy. We think if I only had that car or that job then I will have truly arrived. The truth is the happiness and growth comes during the pursuit of what we seek, not in attaining it.  When I was in X-ray school, I wanted a job in CT ...

It is a well known fact in the radiology community that the amount of radiation from a CT is much higher than that of a traditional x-ray. Doctors working in emergency rooms order numerous CT scans each day hoping to diagnose, save lives, and avoid law suits. Working in CT in a busy ER there is never a shortage of patients who have orders for ...

Working at a teaching hospital has many pros and cons. One of the cons is the constant rotation of residents through the emergency room. While I respect their knowledge of medicine, they often don’t know which CT scans to order on their patients. They usually know what pathology they are looking for but don’t always know which scan will find ...

Last weekend the veteran technologist I usually work with was away at a conference. I had no idea who I’d be working with and this left me feeling a little uneasy. It turned out that Saturday I worked with a woman I am very familiar with and truly enjoy and Sunday with a woman I rarely encounter. I was very proud of how I handled myself throughout ...

As much fun as I am having working with a student, it is a great responsibility. I am not the primary person training her but we do spend a good deal of quality time together each weekend. She is learning from a wonderful 20 year veteran who continues to teach me new things each and every week as well. When she goes to lunch it is just me and the ...

When I graduated from x-ray school I was eager to take a job where I could work with students. I am a teacher at heart and fresh off the student wagon I hoped I could make a difference in someone’s education like so many folks had done for me. For this past year and five months this hasn’t been possible because of my schedule. Most students rotate ...

You can’t go anywhere without seeing someone looking down at their handheld smart phone. Whether we're texting, playing a game or surfing the Web, many of us have become completely dependent on this technology. It has many practical uses; one of the newest is mobile applications in radiology. A radiologist can access a patient’s current exam, ...

The crisp, cool air is telling us that fall has arrived, and with this change in seasons comes the eagerly anticipated start of football season. Many of us wonder how we lived without it for so many months. Whether you prefer college, the pros, or both, this is the time of year you've been waiting for. I grew up in a home with two parents who ...

This week I finally had the opportunity to do a brain perfusion CT. One of our senior technologists was available to show me what to do. She is an excellent teacher, so the whole experience wasn’t as bad as I had initially anticipated. The post-processing isn’t too tough; just very tedious and unlike any other post-processing I do. The perfusion ...