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Who here works in Radiology or is a Radiologist?
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Even though I read x-rays several times a day, it's not exactly my field, but I'll try anyway if you want. One of my best friends in chiro school was a rad tech and he told me quite a bit.
Anyway, he was a rad tech and said that it was pretty much like any other job. He was already lead technician for his department, and said that it was possible to become department chair by having a rad tech degree alone. Apparently that's not always the case but if it were then the possibilities are nice. The pay scale was accordingly almost a decade ago so my numbers may not be correct, but he was paid hourly. He didn't make a killing, nor was he able to pay his way thru chiro school but he had good spending money. He worked weekends only starting Friday afternoons. I think he was pulling one twelve hour shift, coming home to sleep and then pulling two consecutive 12's the next day.
He described several things that were not so wonderful. One case, while doing a lower GI (enema insertion of a tube and the colon is then filled to distention with radio-opaque fluid), the "seal" broke. Picture a large volume of diarrhea suddenly bursting forth. Guess who had to clean it up. He also described hating giving lower GI's to certain patients. One that he told me about was an elderly lady. He argued with the ordering doctor that it was not a good idea to perform it on her. He ignored the rad tech's advice and did it anyway. As suspected, the lady died during the procedure.
I don't want to discourage you believe it or not!
But it seems the guy I knew was kind of enjoying the idea of not having to do it much longer. I dunno.
Anyway, he was a rad tech and said that it was pretty much like any other job. He was already lead technician for his department, and said that it was possible to become department chair by having a rad tech degree alone. Apparently that's not always the case but if it were then the possibilities are nice. The pay scale was accordingly almost a decade ago so my numbers may not be correct, but he was paid hourly. He didn't make a killing, nor was he able to pay his way thru chiro school but he had good spending money. He worked weekends only starting Friday afternoons. I think he was pulling one twelve hour shift, coming home to sleep and then pulling two consecutive 12's the next day.
He described several things that were not so wonderful. One case, while doing a lower GI (enema insertion of a tube and the colon is then filled to distention with radio-opaque fluid), the "seal" broke. Picture a large volume of diarrhea suddenly bursting forth. Guess who had to clean it up. He also described hating giving lower GI's to certain patients. One that he told me about was an elderly lady. He argued with the ordering doctor that it was not a good idea to perform it on her. He ignored the rad tech's advice and did it anyway. As suspected, the lady died during the procedure.
I don't want to discourage you believe it or not!
But it seems the guy I knew was kind of enjoying the idea of not having to do it much longer. I dunno.
TEXgrl
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i work in a radiology center and the starting pay for a rad tech is around 16-18 dollars and hour fresh out of school. i talked to our mri tech and she says it will usually depend on experience and also demand in the field in the area you are in. of coarse, she's been doing it for about 15 years so she makes considerably more and she is our lead tech. she said it comes and goes on whether there is a demand for that job. of coarse, it will also depend on what machines etc you can run. we also have some techs who have second jobs on a "on call" basis for hospitals and they make pretty good money that way.
as far as a radiologist, reading films, ours make pretty good money, they get paid on what we collect, but we are a private center.
as far as a radiologist, reading films, ours make pretty good money, they get paid on what we collect, but we are a private center.
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