radiographer observation! 09.25.
11:34 pm Uncategorizedso yesterday I did my 4 hours of medical observation at the hospital! I was obeserving the radiologic techs which is what I wanted to do. It was pretty awesome. I was in fluoroscopy forever cuz nothing else was really going on. Some lady got her tubes tied, and I couldn’t go in there since I was a guy. An elderly woman had dysphasia and I got to watch them do tests on her. The gave people barium of mixed with different consistencies and on the x-ray screen you could see the liquid traveling down the esophagus and into the stomach. Then they had them roll around to coat the stomach and you could watch it travel through the small intestines and stuff. It was really cool. Then I saw some lady that had gastric bypass surgery and they wanted to see if her stomach was ok. She was screaming of pain the whole time I felt bad…anywho they gave her the barium and on the screen you could see that it was all staying in stomach and wasn’t moving into the intestines so something was wrong. Then a saw a baby get a “cookie” which is like a test to examine whats wrong with the esophagus or something? I dont remember lol but the baby was gagging and throwing up a lot so thats why they brought him in. They made the baby drink different consistencies of things and watched on the screen as it traveled down and for some of the liquid would leak into the trachea. and then I saw a bunch of other stuff too since I was in there the forever, basically the same things. Then I went down to like the regular x-ray room for second where they do stuff for like hands and chests and stuff. Then I went down to the ER. There was a little blood because people just got surgery and stuff but it wasn’t major. The hospital I went to was trauma II which means they don’t deal with the major gory accidents, so that was good. Overall my whole experience was really helpful. It changed my outlook about the job as well. It was definately a lot more work than I expected. I didn’t realize you had to do the things they did. I know that you have to have a high tolerance level for this job. For example, this elderly woman could not move onto the table. So the tech was trying to tell her to lie down and she couldn’t hear anyone that well at all. She was not cooperating or following directions when trying to take the actual x-rays. They had to spend like 30 mins trying to x-ray her foot because she kept moving. I would have lost my cool because of frustration, but you have to stay nice and calm and all that stuff! Thats the one thing that I can see myself struggling with is the elderly patients. The students I talked to were really cool and funny. They were telling me about how the doctors are all douches. Which i could see. This tall skinny indian doctor walked around with a cocky attitude. With his lips like purposely puffed out as if he was going to kiss someone and talked in a very monotone voice when talking to others like he was too good. it was pretty lame. I probably couldn’t deal with that either. I’d get pissed at doctors and probably punch them since almost all think they are superior than you. hmm I dunno. I liked seeing everything, but I now know that it is not as easy as I thought it would be.Hopefully I can still do it!
That all actually sound interesting. I’ve never even thought about working with anything that has to do with hospitals. Guess I’m not a people person in that way. The doctors sound like something out of Scrubs though, lol.
Mark! I haven’t commented you in such a long time! I am sorry! D:
Anyhow…
Wow, that trip to the hospital sounds very interesting. Although this wouldn’t be a field I’d get into, I think I would have enjoyed seeing a lot of that, even though many would find it “gross” or such.
It’s good though, this definitely is an eye opener for those who are interested in becoming some sort of doctor! It gives you a good idea of what you will be getting yourself into.
Haha, I laughed at the snobby guy doctor! I would probably have issues with people like that as well!