As a sonographer myself, I get tempted to answer questions when patients ask them 😁

@pyrofloki

10 ай бұрын

You’ll learn not todo that shit

@TheDancerMacabre

4 ай бұрын

I had a blood clot in my subclavian vein when I was like 23. Scared of it happening again ever since. Anytime I see that discoloration, that tingling, and tightness, I freak out Thankfully, it's service connected so I can go to the ER at a VA hospital and get it checked out. One sonographer saw how scared I was one time in particular. She had a thick Slavic accent and said something along the lines of *you're going to be okay. If it wasn't okay, I wouldn't be the only one in this room" It wasn't a diagnosis, didn't say if it was a DVT, or a prognosis. But that helped. Like I realized "She has a point. If it was something life threatening, there probably be a bit more hustle" And if it is a DVT, I'm in the right place to have it taken care of, and if it's nothing, then I'll just be bumped lower on the triage. I don't know how ethical that is but it really helped me out that night.

Yup. My main answer is, “well the doctor who reads this exam will give the verdict in their report on how everything looks.” The most common answer i get is, “oh, i know. You just can’t tell me.” 😂 and then i say, “well it won’t matter anyways what i think or say because i’m not a doctor.”

Lol it starts snowballing

My sister had an ultrasound for her kidneys. I’m an sonographer myself so I saw the tech measuring a small kidney stone. I told my sister I saw a very tiny kidney stone and it’ll go away with drinking water. My sister is so freaked out by the small kidney stone even though it’s not a huge deal. 😭😭😭😭😭 She gets her results back from the doc and they told her everything on the ultrasound looked fine and they saw nothing wrong. The Sonographers will always pay attention to the smallest details.

I never answer that question. "Hows my heart". It looks like a heart.

@minahlastname8186

4 ай бұрын

I did ask my moms sonographer to just explain the anatomy and she was thinking about it then said okay

@jessiepollock4404

3 ай бұрын

Yup!! “Do you see anything??” “Yes I see your liver, gallbladder..”

@briejustiniano6917

3 ай бұрын

Exactly. “How’s my ticker doing, you see anything?”…“it’s doing its thing in there 🙂”

Every time!!! I need to call my wife🤣🤣🤣

Exactly! LOL. that’s just one reason the other is you might give more accurate information to them than the physician will.

Omg yes, when you try to be nice and give them a little info they run with it then you’re in trouble! 🙄🙄🙄

I wanna be a Medical Sonographer so badly and I can just imagine someone just saying " am I going to die." If you roll them they have a cyst 🤣

I'm an IDA and whenever I work in Ultrasound the patients always hammer me with "does everything look ok?" The Sonographer told me to "NEVER GIVE THEM THE ANSWER!"

...and when you dont say anything, the patient thinks you're incompetent.

Wow super accurate 😂😂

I can’t give results, but I can tell you that you have all the parts that are supposed to be there.

But we literally will have same interaction with the doctor when they tell us the info😂

in developing countries we have no option but to write the reports that are later validated by radiologists

@SonographicTendencies

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah every country is different!

My reaction to a MRI result that was in her patient portal. The doctor hadn't called to explain anything, so google was my first explanation.

Literally my day today

Ya u are right

I remember the sonographer asked if I had pcos. I said not that I've been told. She wrote back to my doctor who said she is indicating pcos but you don't look like a typical pcos patient so we can ignore what she said. I was like excuse me..... When was the last time you scanned a patient? 😂

It’s impossible not to respond to the question: “ hope everything is normal doc” You end up discussing up to prognosis

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I often get patients who hyperventilate when asked to hold breath. Can you please show it in ur videos in your hilarious way!!!

@jenniferantonio6389

Жыл бұрын

Or when you ask them to hold their breath and they don't... that would be perfect in a hilarious way... it happens all the time, like we can't tell.

Sir… sir. Sir…

Truth!!!

So true man

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Lol, so true. :)

How do I start ?

Ohhh it's very common 😂😂😂

literally that's what they do 😂

Techs I've encountered have always just said it's against the law for them to make diagnoses because they're not doctors. Easy peasy

😂🤣😍😁exactly why you do not go there 🤣

how do doctors tell pts?

@genevievesylvester5968

2 жыл бұрын

They usually tell the patient "you will only hear from us if there are any concerns" so they get out of the whole drama!!!

Always remember the sgt shultz quote from the show hogans heroes. I know nothing I see nothing

True

Thats why u are not allow to give the patient result!!!!

Yeah nice

The US needs to allow you to diagnose it's way over due

@eattravellovejoy20

Жыл бұрын

We would have to go through more years of expensive college. Around $40,000 tuition a year. And have stricter accredidation exams (weed out students). And then we would have to pay for malpractice insurance in case a patient sues us. So no thank you. Leave it to the physicians to diagnose and take the liability and headache.

@anonnnymousthegreat

Жыл бұрын

As an ultrasound tech, i can say I don’t get paid enough to do what a doctor does. And i’m glad we don’t diagnose. Our job is to do the exam with the machine, is why we are called techs. We are not doctors, so it’s not our job to diagnose patients. Especially when you have to factor in many other things like other testing and full on medical history to make a valid and sensible diagnosis. If we did the job of a tech and an actual doctor, we wouldn’t need doctors.

@magisvita2937

Жыл бұрын

​​​​@@eattravellovejoy20So what are you saying the likes of myself and others in the UK are in error? We have been scanning and reporting for decades and are now better than most doctors that scan. We train postgraduately for 2 years and your employer pays. America needs to sort it out. I will say all of us are either Senior radiographers first. You cant just study ultrasound as a first degree

@magisvita2937

Жыл бұрын

​​@@anonnnymousthegreatif you want to sell yourself short thats fine. You should bave been rigoursley trained to allow you to diagnose. I forgot the US system and UK are worlds apart. Don't just be a button pusher or a knob twister

@jamesvanderbilt201

9 ай бұрын

that’s usually only a thing in developing countries, why are you bragging? 😂

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So does this bother you? Im a teacher at heart and my cureent job I educate people on finances but ive considerd changing careers but this concerns me that I wont be thriving in what im good at

you can tell. but if they had another question just say the doctor will explain it to you 😂

So moral of the story is, don’t say anything at all ? 😂 I’m in ultrasound school now and scared about getting this question!

@anonnnymousthegreat

Жыл бұрын

I am an ultrasound tech too. I think it’s annoying but fun. Because i always come up with a new way to say the same thing everytime that basically is telling them i’m not allowed to give results. It helps me be creative in my communication skills. 😂 some responses i’ve given: “Oh, i just take the pictures. I don’t read the exam.” “I’m just the eyes for the doctor who will give the results.” “The doctor who will read this exam will give their verdict on how it looks.” “You don’t want to trust what i say, because i could be dead wrong.” “It doesn’t matter what i tell you or what i think, because i’m not a doctor.” “I don’t diagnose, i just do the test.” “I’m not a doctor, so I don’t diagnose.” “Yeah. If i would tell you something. An ultrasound test alone won’t give you full diagnosis of what is wrong with you.” And list goes on and on. I answer according to the type of patient i’m dealing with. 😂

@gigachadrty466

Жыл бұрын

​@@anonnnymousthegreat I have a question.... you guys know what gonna doctor say or their verdict or you really don't know what's going on?

@givelordx

Жыл бұрын

@@anonnnymousthegreat 🤣Thank you !

@givelordx

Жыл бұрын

@@gigachadrty466 The ultrasound tech knows most of the time but as a precaution its best not to tell the patient in case the doctor says something different.

@keebhaavana3387

Жыл бұрын

@@anonnnymousthegreat The only one I personally wouldn't say is “You don’t want to trust what i say, because i could be dead wrong.”. I feel like that gives room in others to create doubt about my ability in doing my job. Some people get anxiety VERY fast and I wouldn't want them to freak out and think that they would need to take another test with a different sonographer. But as you said, it's kind of the reading the room/person.

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Yep this is why I say NOTHING. Then you have patients who point blank ask you “am I gonna die???” Sir only God knows the answer to that!

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The harassment is real 😑

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aren't sonographers doctors??

@SonographicTendencies

2 жыл бұрын

No sonographers are technologists like xray techs but with ultrasound

@AyaMohamed-jl3ti

2 жыл бұрын

@@SonographicTendencies okay, in middle east we are radiologists, no technicians allowed to do the ultrasound scan. But your videos are quite precise yet informative and skilled.

@xovb

2 жыл бұрын

@@AyaMohamed-jl3ti the doctor he mentions in the video would be the radiologist. In the US the technician/sonographer takes the images and then the radiologist reviews and diagnoses the images

@AyaMohamed-jl3ti

2 жыл бұрын

@@xovb yeah, got it

@Rorschach771

2 жыл бұрын

@@AyaMohamed-jl3ti I see what you mean. The school I went to, the sonographer teachers we had, mostly from the middle east, have doctor's degrees.

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