*makes a mental note*
The kind of man who loves his wife and is willing to undergo a minor office procedure instead of putting her through the multiple health risks of BC pills or full-blown surgery with anesthesia and the previously-mentioned risks of THAT!
Wimp. Ivan came to work with me one night while I was on call many years ago, and we were trying to get an IV going on a rather difficult pt. Just as we got the cath into the vein, the pt. became even more agitated and a little more blood 'escaped' than usual. Ivan was helping to hold the pt. down for the procedure and suddenly became rather pale and I had to send him into the next room to recover. He usually does not have this type of problem with blood - unlike all the big, tough college football players that we always did lab work on during their sports physicals. I can't tell you how many of these guys we had to pick up off the floor of the lab after their blood draws! What a RIOT!
Depends. Call your family physician. He/she will be able to give you all the info you need. I think, though, you may be a tad young to be considering this, don't you? Please tell me you're just curious and you are not considering this. Talk to your parents or doctor if you are.
Yes, and I got to do something I always wanted to try! That was such a fun day. Wasn't it, honey? )]
Adrenaline just said it was 40-50%?
Diagnostic Imaging. X-ray, CT, MRI, mammography. I'm checking into expanding into PET. Imaging is also used quite extensively in the surgical suites.Originally posted by Zantra
50 percent is better than the zero percent chance of reversing a vasectomy.
Besides, these types of surguries are usually declined to anyone under 25, unles there are extrenuating circumstances (ie a lot of kidss already).
Tsunami, I spy a medical professional. Nurse is it?
Elementary!
In that case we just get a needle and extract the swimmers that way..
Imaging includes Radiology. Ultrasound and MRI do not utilize radiation, so technically they don't fall in the category of radiology. That's why you'll see more 'Radiology' departments being called 'Imaging'. It's truly a fascinating field. We have our fingers in almost every medical specialty 'pie' that's out there. I also enjoyed a bit of Interventional Radiology in it's early stages. I almost specialized in angiography but the advent of CT diverted my attentions. The technological advancements in that field have been incredible to observe! We went from doing head scans (two contiguous 5mm axial slices - considered VERY high resolution at that time) in 5 minutes, to total body scans (sixteen 3mm helical [overlapping] slices)in LESS THAN A SECOND! There are also .5 - 1mm slice capabilities on most scanners. Computer reconstruction of these images used to take up to 5 minutes. Now they are nearly instantaneous, with sagittal and coronal reconstructions almost as fast. Different algorithms can be applied to the images to enhance things like boney trebeculae and lung parenchyma. And those 3D 'Fly By' virtual bronchoscopies and colonoscopies - WOW! CT has taken over a lot of the angio exams and almost all pulmonary embolism evaluations. Interventional medicine is a big part of most CT suites, as well. It's a wonderful blend of medicine and computer technology.
I understood.Oh, and I meant elementary, as in elementary my dear watson- deducing your profession
Originally posted by Zantra
Thanks for that info. Very helpful. I don't know if you are also familiar with Southern California, but if so, Do you have any recommendations of where I could go to do some shadowing? I have to do that as part of my application process, and I'd like to shadow a radiologist. I'm in OC, but I can commute as far as LA or Sand Diego if necessary.
PS. You guys must have a firewall, because you two never show up as "online"
..something is not right with that sentence
Originally posted by Tsunami
I know So. Cal. very well. I did mobile CT all over the place, from OC to the SF Valley, but that was many years ago, so all of my contacts have moved away or just plain fell of the earth. Both Ivan and I were born and raised down thatta way and still have much family there. Shadowing? Probably the best place to START would be a free-standing Imaging Clinic. Choose one that looks like there is a lot of money behind it. That's probably where you'll find the best equipment and most progressive Rads. If they have a contract with a local hospital to read their films, all the better. Then you have a choice of clinic or hospital procedures. (I can't remember if you are IN med. school yet. Isn't there a 'shadowing' program in your med. school curriculum where they set all this up for you?) If you are on friendly terms with any MD's, they can probably help you get your foot in the door. Any of the larger Medical Centers will be the place for the most interesting studies and diverse pathologies. USC, UCLA, Cedars, even (or especially) MLK (for trauma medicine)... If you have a chance to shadow any of those, GRAB IT! Even VA hospitals can be very good. I've scanned them all! Remind me to tell you about the guy at MLK (on PCP) and the I-beam sometime. Not right now! I need to go eat!
GOOD LUCK! Let me know how it's going!
lol, just wait when he finds out what OB/GYN do :P or who delivers babies :O
Probably the same woman who wants big 'tits' so bad she's willing to ignore all of the risks and undergo anesthesia and be sliced up to get them.
You're welcome. It's an excellent specialty in many ways. It's one of the few disciplines that actually allows you a decent nights sleep most of the time, thereby avoiding the well-known "post call lack of sleep delerium" as previously mentioned by our resident MD, adrenaline. You'll become well aquainted with this feeling during your internship and residency. Unless, you specialize in Interventional Radiology, you can pretty much take call from home. You keep your laptop next to your bed, get an occasional phone call, sit up and look at a series of images on your 'puter, call the ED physician with a prelim. report, and turn over and go back to sleep. Now, if you don't EVER want to be woke up in the middle of the night, I believe Dermatology would be the best area. I've never encountered a true 'dermatological emergency'.
