- It literally physically injures me. I am finishing my second stint of physical therapy inside the same year next week. More than one exam per hour injures your workers, but watch them try to cram 2-4 per hour.
- Ultrasound is completely unlike every other imaging modality. If I, yes I, the tech doesn't recognize what's wrong with you the doctor won't either. No, the computer doesn't do the work. It's essentially just a tool that lets me look inside you so my brain is what does the work. Which means if something is difficult to see, or confusing, only time with you is going to resolve it.
- But our leads/managers, who are never ultrasound trained themselves, don't understand or care why we're backed up and still try to cram more exams in our schedule.
- Cover your ass healthcare. If I actually thought that my patient needed the exam they were getting, Mr. doctor, I'd feel a lot better about my job. But since I'm doing a venous doppler because their toe hurts and they have +D dimer (which can be elevated for over 100 reasons), I'm going to assume this is a bull shit exam that I don't want to waste the inflaming of the arthritis in my shoulder over. not allowed to say no though.
- I could go to school, grab my bachelors, to get into teaching, but wouldn't wish this job on any of my hypothethical students the way healthcare system ignores the differences and needs of this modality.
- Department meetings? ha! Ultrasound is never at Department Meetings, we're too busy, and the leads/manages don't care. They don't want to talk to us anyway and they will never ever clear time on our schedule so we can go. But they'll expect you to send receipt that you've read the minutes later.
-Someone who wasn't my boss (random floor doctor) okayed my overtime the last shift I worked to perform a routine exam on an inpatient. Of course it was negative.
Like some others have said up stream, I just want to internet, write, draw, play video games, cook from scratch and live my life. A job pays for your life, it'll never be your life. And I just want to do my time and get out before the injuries pile up to where I can't even go g-darn scuba diving.