Are you at a point in your life where you are ready for an exciting new career? Well look no further, I have an amazing job that i 'm going to tell you all about. First off your going to need to go back to school. Wait! don 't freak out it will be just as fun an exciting as the career will be. You will start out with regular classes learning your Surgical Technology basics, along with math and english. Nearing the end of your college adventure you will start clinic. This is where you go to hospitals and get your first taste of being a Surgical Technologist. After School you will be in the first stages of being a Surgical Technologist. You will experience different things some will be good but some not so much. The good is you have an
It was a warm summer afternoon of August, 1999, at a friend’s house when I was introduced to rheumatoid arthritis. It was a casual and startling encounter. His aunt greeted me at the door to take me to the guest room. She seemed to be in her mid-40’s, had a round face with thin reddish skin, painful looking hand deformities and a slow, limping gait; most strikingly, an aura of pain was visible all around her. I asked my friend, concernedly, why she looked so different. He somberly replied that she had rheumatoid arthritis. He opened to tell me how, despite the available treatment, she was unable to complete her education or have a job because she could not walk in the evenings and had severe pains all night every night since her teenage and that she was never married and was dependent on her parents. For a 15 years old me, it was distressing. This experience exposed me to the reality of human suffering. It’s not just the disease, the pain, there is also a taboo which one must endure.
There is more to being a Radiologic technician that we never thought about. When we visit the health care office for one of these exams we might not have ever thought about the schooling and experience they have had to go threw to be helping you with what they are helping you with today. We might not have even know who the people are called that give you your x-ray exam , MRI, or your CT scan, but now you do and have background knowledge on who they
Sonography and ethical decision making is the key topic in the fallowing paper. Main issues in such as emotions being unethical and ethical obligation to ourselves.
Technology is an ever-growing industry which has become a factor in nearly everyone’s daily schedule in one way or another. As a result of the growth in modern technology, innovations in the medical field have developed extraordinarily in the past decade alone. For instance, there is an extensive variety of imaging equipment which could be used to create reliable results, such as the CT scan or even the X-ray machine. However, Sonography has out-smarted the competition when seeking a non-evasive, safe, and affordable method of visualizing the body to assist in the process of immediate care.
In fact, the very first duties of a physician are to take care, protect, take reasonable actions of care, and be more cautious and careful while diagnosing or checking for diseases. Thus, when we talk about medical centres, we mean everything related to health care services like radiology, cardiology, and blood testing for example. These services should be carefully and responsibly provided. For our present instance, we will be more concerned with clinical negligence to the practice of radiology.
My career goal is to become a diagnostic medical sonographer, or an ultrasound technician. Each day as an ultrasound technician will bring new surprises. In the morning a sonographer could be conducting an OB/GYN ultrasound, helping an excited first-time mom see her fetus developing in her belly. Then, then in the next procedure your trying to calm an old woman as she waits to see if her tumors have grown. The days of a medical sonographer are never dull but are challenging, fast-paced, and rewarding. As a sonographer you have the opportunity to help all kinds of different people, from all walks of life, with all kinds of different problems.
Participation in the MD Anderson 1st Year Medical Student Program would provide a research based experience that would catalyze my goals for the future. Investigations with results that could prove practical towards my patients at the bedside are of great interest to me. This has sparked my attention towards translational medicine as a promising area of investigation. I believe the field of radiomics in particular has tremendous potential for clinical applications in direct patient care, especially in the field of oncology. Radiomics lies at the juncture of what I believe to be extremely exciting science in the coming future of personalized medicine. This is what prompted me to approach Dr. Rivka Colen (desired mentor), of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology, to conduct research in her lab. An interplay between research and clinical treatment such as the way Dr. Colen implements will be one of the grounds that I intend to structure my own practice around. The MD Anderson 1st Year Medical Student Program would help me achieve the first steps towards conducting research in my career as a physician-scientist. After this research experience, I hope to have a better understanding of my place in the world of
I began my undergraduate education at Colorado State University in 2004. I declared my major as Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. At this point in my life, I had no clue what I wanted to do for my career and thought this would be the best option and give me the most diversity of career options. Going into my sophomore year, I began a job in the emergency department at the hospital located in the college town. During my first day, I got to see a variety of emergent and non-emergent medical procedures. The level of care that the varying healthcare professionals provided to these patients was fascinating and became intrigued to a career path in the medical field. Over the next couple of years, I narrowed the possibility
Radiation exposure has been proven to be detrimental to both the patients’ health and the technicians. If exposed to too much radiation, it can eventually cause cancer. Radiation deals more with the patient since they are the ones being tested to see what is wrong and where the pain is coming from. The technicians are suppose to take all safety precautions to protect both themselves and the patients’.
In the past 18 months, I have continued to shadow various physicians across a variety of specialties that serve different communities. Each time, I am amazed at their ability to heal patients with various ailments. This sense of wonder leaves me wanting to learn more and motivates me to eventually become a physician that has the ability to heal all of these patients as well. In addition, I have shadowed physicians for their full twelve-hour shifts, so I have seen all of the aspects of the career. Though there may be some less desirable aspects, such as the required time spent completing charts, I realize the importance of it. Through these shadowing experiences, I can be assured that I am making an informed decision and pursuing a career that
One of the key components in this career is the ability to explain clear procedures to your patient so that they know what is going on at all times. Along with clear procedures comes comforting them because most times a patient may be new to the surroundings. How you present yourself to the patient will play a big part in determining how relaxed they will be; although, this does not always go as planned. You will most likely get a few frantic patients either because of their current medical situation or simply because they are unfamiliar and nervous, so you must be mentally prepared to handle that situation with ease by being compassionate and always feeling empathetic for your patient. I also learned that being extremely observant by noticing the small details is another essential part in being a
The field radiology is in is the medical field. Radiology is in the medical field because some of the main activities you do is take x-rays of people, diagnose diseases people have and breaks in their bones. You also work with a group of people including a radiologist assistant and a few radiologist nurses that set up and prep the patient and area for their x-rays.
As an aspiring physician in Emergency Medicine, it is hard to describe typical physician workday activities. Every day is unique and filled with many opportunities to learn and develop clinical, interpersonal communication, leadership and critical thinking skills. Despite this, there are certain routine activities which I had the opportunity to observe through my shadowing experience in the Emergency and Operating rooms at California Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles. One day, a two year old patient came into the ER after falling and cutting her head. The patient’s mother told the physician that her daughter is nervous and scared. Upon meeting the little girl, I was surprised to see the doctor change his actions and way of communicating.
Evaluate your two goals. (Did you meet them? Explain the reason for meeting or not meeting these goals?)