You believe any job where you can drive to work in green pajamas is a cool job!
You wash your hands before you go to the bathroom!
When asked, "what color is the patient’s diarrhea?" you show them your shoes!
You know what a 3-H enema is ....High, Hot and Hell of a lot!
You have ever been in a death grip!
You have ever told a confused patient your name was that of a co- worker and to HOLLER if they need help!
Eating popcorn out of a clean bedpan is perfectly natural!
You can identify the kidney stone squirm at 20 feet!
You've ever had a patient with a nose ring, brow ring and 12 earrings say, "I'm afraid of needles!
You have to leave the patient's room before you begin to laugh uncontrollably!
You believe a roll of tape can fix any problem!
You say to yourself “great veins” when looking at a complete stranger in a grocery store!
You know beauty is not only skin deep....great trabeculation, nice odontoid!
The question of the day is to B.E. or not to B.E.!
You know that a hard beam tight collimation equals adequate penetration!
You know the acronym: Never Lower Tillie's Pants Grandma Might Come Home!
You know what "pop the film" means!
You have more white cardboard than you need!
You have x-rays of yourself at home that have never been read by a doctor!
You have copy x-rays of strange things, that you get out at parties!
You can tell if someone is faking or really hurt!
You have ever been sent to sterile supply to get fallopian tubes!
Somebody asks for a tip, and you say... the students!
You give somebody a hug, and feel for their iliac crest
You think it's perfectly normal to use a BE bag and tube as a funnel for binge drinking
You make comments like "the costophrenic angles are not showing when chest x-rays are shown on tv or movies.
You look up at the clouds and see an apple core carcinoma
When you watch ER, Nip Tuck, Scrubs, Etc. you look at the view box in the room and know that the PCXR is hanging upside down, along with the lateral c-spine, and the patient is in the ER because she is having a baby.
Then if you say to yourself and everyone in the room, who don't care because they aren’t in the medical field, those x-rays aren’t hanging right, and that is a major HIPAA violation!!!
You know the answers to:
But my left side does not hurt, just the right side of my chest hurts, why are you taking a picture of the left?
You don’t plan on putting that in me, do you? The doctor just said barium was involved.
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Hilarious!!! Now that I have 8 months of clinicals under my belt, I get these jokes. :-)
ReplyDeletelol, Well, I have a whole 3 weeks of clinicals, understood a few...I'll check back in a few months to "get" the rest ;-)
ReplyDeletelol, Well, I have a whole 3 weeks of clinicals, understood a few...I'll check back in a few months to "get" the rest ;-)
ReplyDeleteHAHA....I love that!
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