Chest Pains
Posted By: Washington MT on 2005-12-01
In Reply to: I know what ya'll will probably say. I am scared right now. For the past 2 weeks or so sm - Dancin Shoes
We just had a good family friend that had been having chest pains, he went to his son's soccer game instead of the doctor and died several hours later. I am not saying that it will happen to you, but chest pains are nothing to mess around with. Go see a doctor!
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Pains
I do the same thing - switching feet and stretching. I also try to walk every day and that seems to help. My shoulders are my big problem area as well. It seems no matter what I do, they are still killing me at the end of the day! Whew! :)
It pains me to say this
But I've been on both sides, MT/ME and QA, and you're absolutely right. I've seen some atrocities sent through by 'experienced' MTs, reports that made me give thanks they did not go straight through to the client because it would have been an blemish on the entire company.
I'm not referring simply to blanks left for QA to fill in; I'm talking about outrageous typos and flat-out mistakes on meds, diagnoses, etc., throughout the body of the report.
This certainly is not true for all MT/ME's, not by any means, but it's not just the newbies, either. I was mortified at how many inept MTs are out there with 15+ years of experience. I found it so exasperating that I went back to MT/ME and haven't ventured back into QA since.
I always liked doing chest CT reports.
Very interesting and a few terms that are a little tricky. I own Stedman's CV & Pulmonary Words book, and all the terms are in there. I imagine you'll do pulmonary function tests. I've done those, but don't remember anything about them. I can say that the pulmonary docs in my town are some of the pickiest, but being able to focus on one specialty should make it pretty easy for you.
It was a chest CT, so not sacral. (nm)
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It's good to get that off your chest -
sounds like you've been bottling that up for years.
I think we all go through the same burnout. I pop my valve every now and then to keep it from building; and when it really gets bad, I take a roadtrip as far as I can get for few days.
Too bad there is not physicians' board to post that.
aches and pains
I got tarsal tunnel while working on reports by a physician who constantly was changing his mind and had no normals. He dictated a high volume and I finally had to get a doctor's note that I could only transcribe his reports for no more than 2 hours a day -
Similar pains sm
I had similar pains when my shoulder started bothering me and I started losing ROM of my shoulder.
I'll tell you what I was told (and didn't listen to very well) but you should probably stop and stretch your arms frequently (like every hour maybe). Also, stretch other parts of your body too. I noticed you said after typing "long periods of time" or something like that and maybe that is the key! Don't type long periods of time without a break for stretching. Hope it helps. 
back pains
To much inactivity girl. Try standing at your desk instead of sitting for a couple of hours. Do stretching exercises at your break for your back and whole body and get outside at least an hour a day and walk, work in the garden. Get some sun, vitamin D ya know, we need sun. Swim in a pool, great for back. For the most part strengthen you abdominals. I have done all of the above and it has helped.
Vista Pains!
Hey all,
I am trying to set my laptop up with XP since Vista is not compatible with anything. I was told that you can "dual boot" XP and have Vista in the background in case it is one day worth a crud. I know how to reload XP onto my laptop and take Vista off completely, but I'm not sure I want to do that. Plus, I have a remote login setup on it now for the hospital work I do on the weekends. So I need to be able to transfer that to the XP side also.
I am so frustrated with Vista! I just want to go back to good ol' XP without losing EVERYTHING I have on my laptop.
If someone could provide me with instructions I would be so grateful!
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The patient had a normal chest x-ray without
turbo-clauses.  Just laugh with me, I know what she meant, it just sounded funny.
un- attached chest port?
My son has a chest port. He can lift up three corners of the port, make a pocket out of loose skin and slid his thumb under the port. He says the port is supposed to float freely within a tissue pocket created in his chest. It is his belief the port is Not sutured to anything inside him, like, say, the chest wall for example. Hmmmm! I am seeking outside opinions as he and I disagree. Please let me know what you think.
In Joy,
cyllk
mammos and chest x-rays
I type a variety of reports and maybe 10 mammos and 10 chest x-rays a couple of times a week. I type more CTs and MRIs. I think it depends on what accounts your company has, how many people are on that account. There is at least two other people typing on the same account so I am sure they get some of the mammos and chest also. It is more of a typing pool so you just take what is next. I have always been a RADMT and never type that many mammos in a day.
Glad you got that off your chest. I feel
when the doc is delinquent and HIM gives him the notices to make him dictate, that is the time I work extra to make more money... this way my bank account will be bigger the next time he goes on his golf outing for a few weeks, or to his house in the Bahamas and I go broke waiting, waiting, waiting (as the dictators say when looking through a chart) for more dictations to type.
You got it. Did you get those embarrasing spasming pains sm
The next day?
I'm walking through the parking lot at the grocery store (I know, I know, I shouldn't have gone but I did) and I'd get like a huge pain in one hip or behind my knee or in my foot and I'm walking through the parking lot, pausing and yelping quietly and looking and sounding as if I needed someone to call security. :)
back and neck pains
does anyone have any tips for backache and neck pains from sitting? I do try to take breaks and do stretches. As far as a good chair, any hints? I know of a good brand but it is awfully expensive but may be worth the investment, but I would like to spend under $200 if I could.
aches & pains--chair
I tried every chair known and still my rear was in agony (just like yours) as soon as I sat down. For the last 6 months, (because my last office chair broke in the middle of the shift), I pulled out my $10 K-Mart foldable canvas camping/fishing chair--took it out of its canvas drawnstring bag--and have been using nothing else ever since and no more ''rear''pain. The canvas seems to ''mold''perfectly to the back and rear-end. (The only draw-back of course is that it is not on coasters, but I have found that since it is so light, that really does not present much of a problem.) (I know it sounds strange but this cheap little canvas folding chair has been a dream-come-true for me.)
Chiropractors? Anybody use them for your aches and pains? SM
My mom swears by hers. I've never been but I have such problems with my neck and shoulder. I get neck spasms chronically. I was in a car wreck years ago where I had whiplash and that coupled with being an MT has not done my neck any good. From time to time my neck will act up, get stiff and sore and my head feels like it weighs 100 pounds! I was rear-ended back in June and it aggravated my neck AGAIN and now it's stiff all the time and pops when I stretch it out.
So I'm considering going to a chiropractor for the first time in my life. I also have TMJ and my dentist has told me that a neck adjustment at a chiropractor's would help that as well. So what do ya'll think? I'm kind of nervous about a guy popping my neck and back. What exactly do they do?
yes, and i'm feeling empathy pains.
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I use the @ for time of exam when doing chest x-rays - sm
but never for anything else.
The 12-lead system comprises six limb (I, II, III, aVR, aVL, and aVF) and six chest leads (V1 to V6)
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i meant to say they lost my CHECK...not chest... i have tired hands right now...lol
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