Normal x-rays, CT scans, nuclear medicine
Posted By: sm on 2008-11-19
In Reply to: Types of reports in radiology transcription - kat
scans, nuclear medicine procedures and tests, etc. Anything procedure associated with radiology, which can include op reports dictated by the radiology interventionists.
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Nuc-U-lare instead of nuclear. NM
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they've been dumping nuclear....sm
they have been dumping nuclear waste in and around Nevada for at least FOUR decades!!!
nothing to worry about? N_O_T.........
You can replace the 2007 Normal.dotm with your old normal.dot file. sm
Open the old normal.dot in Word and save as the new file format.
The easy way is to load the oldest version first and then upgrade.
It's a bus, not a truck load of nuclear waste. It's a blue collar job,
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PET scans
Cannot recall a PET scan any longer than an MRI. Would question if the "busy all day" with 9 reports is because of poor quality of dictation or ESLs.
PET Scans
Try ask Jeeves. com and type in sample report of a PET Scan and you will find a site there from an actual PET scan company with the report right there. Name of the Company is Precision Imaging.
I'm completely normal and met my normal husband online. sm
I also met casual dates online (read: real social dates, NOT sex hookups), and all were completely normal. I wasn't meeting who I wanted to meet in the other traditional ways (church, through friends, at work, etc) so I looked online and found someone whose sense of humor shined through in his writing, and that is who I eventually married after 2+ years of traditional dating. We are both college grads, gainfully employed, financially stable, non-perverted, normal people. BUT, I did have to sort through a LOT of personal ads, as there are certainly plenty of oddballs out there, as well, just like in the outside world. :-)
I run scans everyday. Can you look up some
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Brush up on CT, MRI, PET scans, & ultrasounds.
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Hi, Ive rebooted 2x, run scans, still nothing. Any more ideas? TX a bunch. NM
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X-rays
Does anyone do x-ray transcription? I haven't done it in quite a while, but have been offered a position. I know absolutely nothing about Rad-net! How do you think your line count compares to acute care lines? Thanks a lot!
RE: X-rays
I answered your question yesterday on flow voids. I do diagnostic imaging where I work, and my hospital uses RadNet. I cannot answer your question about lines simply because it is too subjective, but if you want to talk about the functionality of Cerner's platform, I would be happy to talk with you via E-mail.
X-rays
Try this website:
http://www.radiologyinfo.org/index.cfm?bhcp=1
x-rays
 X-rays are not my favorite, but when I am asked to do them I make $1.50 per report. Good luck!
weird x-rays
I used to work in a radiology department and we had quite a few patients with such "accidents". It was amazing how many people just happened to be naked and "fell" on mason jars, etc. I actually got to see some of the x-rays. Wild! I still think the AA batteries are pretty creative. Looks like it should have went with something else though. Wonder what made him decide on AA? Why not AAA? Or C? D? Okay, I'm getting silly, but really, how on earth do they decide to do that and how do they just pick some random object?
Back x-rays
The x-rays were ordered for a slight curvature of the spine -- no accident or anything like that. As for the Gardasil . . .yes I have researched it over and over again and I have had cervical cancer myself, still I would never want that particular injection. Several girls have died. Even more girls have had severe permanent side effects in the forms of disease, blood clots, permanent jont damage, ect. I read about two cases where girls had been hospitalized for 100+ days after Gardasil. It only protects you again 4 types -- if that. You still need to be screened on a regular basis. If caught early, cervical cancer is very treatable. I am a survivor. What's the point? To take the risk of death in order to protect yourself from something that you probably will not get anyway? Something that is very treatable should that situation arise. I have also read that 40% of girls who have had Gardasil go on to develop other cancers. You are trading one for another? I feel that is just insane. Also now there have been miscarriages. I feared birth defects and such. I see that starting to happen as I follow the developments.
X-rays and Gardasil
My sister was in a sledding accident when we were in high school and she had rib x-rays. She now has 2 kids. My daughter had quite a few x-rays when she she was diagnosed with scoliosis. No one ever said anything about her age and future fertility.
I also did not have her get Gardasil when she was underage and I told her why ~ no one has any idea what the long term effects are. When she turned 18, she did her own research and also decided she didn't want it.
The x-rays should not cause infertility if so - sm
then I guess my one daughter is in trouble as she has had over 20 chest x-rays to date (and 20+ abdominal ultrasounds)....all part of her cancer screening...she now gets them yearly as we finally passed that hump on the cancer surveilance calendar back in August. However with her x-rays they do put a shield in front of her from waist down or she wears a special pelvic wrap. I am sure they could do that for you and still get what they need for her spine, unless they need the whole thing of course. But one x-ray should not cause infertility.
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.
infertility and x-rays of the back
Our ped. wants to have my 17-year-old daughter's back x-rayed. Does this cause infertility. I was in a car accident years ago, before having any children and the ER doc would not x-ray my back because he said I was young and didn't have any children yet. Also, the ped. kicked my out of the room and tried to push Gardasil on my daugther after I adamently refused it. More and more deaths/side effects are being exposed. She is a minor -- she cannot yet make that choice. Isn't this illegal? 
1) No, back x-rays do not cause infertility.
2) Did you leave your daughter alone in the room with the pediatrician? If so, why?
3) Did the pediatrician "push" Gardasil on your daughter or did they simply reiterate the facts out of your presence.
4) What state requires a breast exam for a driver's permit? Our state does not even require one for a commercial license, even though they do require a PE.
5) If you are this unhappy with your daughter's medical provider, you should change physicians.
6) No, it is not illegal to provide medical information to a minor, even out of the presence of their legal guardian.
normal? Normal means you have a.....S/M
There is no *normal* in this life..........
There ARE conformists and nonconformists but normal doesn't exist. Sorry. 
You must have a preconceived idea of what *sanity* is, eh? *lol*
I use the @ for time of exam when doing chest x-rays - sm
but never for anything else.
Ours do - hosp. is considering having our x-rays done here, but READ in India! (nm)
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x-rays very small part of diagnosing RA. sm
If he did blood work like CBC, sed rate, CRP, rheumatoid factor, did an exam and a history, more than likely he has enough for the dx. X-ray may not show early RA but in later RA used more to show progression of disease rather than dx.
MT and medicine in general
The greedy guts smelled the ability to MAKE A PROFIT in the field of medicine
and "there went the neighborhood."
It used to be a sign of respect to be a doctor - now they just work for the company store and are running out the door with the nurses at quitting time - throwing any patient they may be seeing to the winds. One even told me to hurry up and make up my mind because she had to go pick up her kids at daycare!
And so has medical transcription - some guy in a tie said QUANTITY OF LINES COULD = MUCHO PROFIT...
Of course those people don't care if a few people die along the way because of errors. - well not at least until it's their leg that's amputated by mistake.
Going into medicine. I have 2 MT friends
who are already in medical school. One MT I worked with at a large hospital is now an anesthesiologist making about $300K a year. Hahaha Should I hope to do so well. Hahaha
Know 1 who is a psychotherapist now. Know 1 who got her MBA and works in government contracting and 1 who got his MS and works for JCAHO.
Lots of things to do out there! It's much easier to decide what you want to do now that you're experienced in life and know what the real investments and rewards are. I'd go on to commercial flight school if I weren't going into medicine. I have a private license. Would LOVE to be Lear certified! Would love to fly a medical helicopter. You can get funding for those flight programs, too! Not a traditional classroom setup. If I don't get into med school, I may be doing that! Hahaha
Internal Medicine
 Are they hiring at all right now? Let me know. Am interested in part-time, evenings and weekends.
How about when they're flipping through x-rays and all you can hear is that racket?? nm
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Unfortunately after paying $140.00 for the medicine (30 days) sm
after two weeks I broke out in hives and had to stop taking it.
"The Language of Medicine" sm
is a very good book and very thorough. I would recommend it highly.
Rehab medicine will include PT, OT, sm
speech therapy, etc.
MT is usually for medicine. Nursing is a different discipline.
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Well, after all the doctors are only "Practicing" Medicine, right? nm
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Perhaps, but there will also be no incentive to go into medicine for US docs, SM
when they get out of med school they have debt, will have to set up a practice, pay their staff, etc. What is the incentive if you can earn a limited income.
I say let the free market decide.
I don’t think he would just out of the blue suggest the medicine
Probably you made mention of having had the cervical cancer and that is where the dialogue started, right? As far as the x-ray, think that is being overplayed with that and fertility. Loads of children, females included, have x-rays when younger and do not lose their ability to have children. You sound like you are stressed out, mentioning this and that, xrays, miscarriages, sterility, etc., etc.
My wonderful MD is having to leave medicine sm
Because she can't afford to practice!!! The compensation for primary care docs SUX. The Blues owe her about $60K she can't collect on care she has already provided. The year I was her MT, her practice paid me $3000, it paid her $2500 FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. She literally didn't take home a paycheck all year and took the $2500 at the end when she didn't have to pay it out. In the end, that money went to pay a lawyer to try to collect from the Blues.
I have a very complicated medical history and still have many significant problems. The idea of changing doctors right now makes me sick. I won't have any more choice about that than my doctor has about leaving the profession. She is a wonderful doctor and has cared for me for 20 years. I am sick over this.
Muscle relaxants could help also. I am on migraine medicine too but...
if it is caused by your muscles trapping the occipital nerve, injections would help, both diagnostically and therapeutically. They would then know how to proceed with your next step in treatment. The stimulator was a miracle until the lead wires moved. If the injections do not help, it rules out one type of headache and on to the next. I use Cafergot for my migraines with aura (a whole different headache altogether), but that has been discontinued now. I really wish you luck!
OT: Changing face of veterinary medicine (sm)
Is it only me or has veterinary medicine changed quite a bit over the years to resemble care of humans? I have cats and absolutely love them but I'm becoming torn between necessary care, preventive care, and just down-right UN-necessary care. I remember back when animals went to the vet for shots and only when they got sick. If they were sick, diagnosis and prognosis dictated the next level of care. And in most cases back then there were no options other than to let nature take its course if something serious/chronic was found.
I'm now noticing that every time I take one of the cats to the vet's, the doc wants to do "baseline" blood work at least once a year and now wants to see my ten-year-old cat on a twice-yearly basis. My kitty is healthy as a horse and has had no health problems for ten years. Why all of a sudden does he need expensive BASELINE lab work and xrays as well as needing to be seen twice a year and have his teeth cleaned twice a year (not cheap)? It sounds like I'm complaining about the money end versus taking care of my kitty, and I suppose in a sense I am, because this adds up to a whole lot over the course of time. The doc mentioned the reasons for the lab work (diabetes, thyroid problems, anemia, cancer, etc.) I'm torn between having the work done and what I would do if anything chronic showed up on the tests. I love my kitty but don't know if spending lots of money on chronic meds/therapy would be an option when I would have to weigh other expenses against them.
Food/medicine caught in throat
This very thing happened to me while eating pizza one day - I ended up in the ER because I could not get it out or to go down. The ER doc ordered a chest x-ray (do not know why) and then sent me home with some Prilosec saying that I had esophagitis. It was a rainy day - two dogs chased my car home and I was afraid to get out - plus I had my sister's four children that week, besides my own two. I took a Prilosec and then had to have my husband rush to the pharmacy for some Benadryl - I was allergic to the dye - then, and I don't recommend this, I got a long-handled teaspoon - bent it and stuck it down my throat - retrieving the pizza dough. I still had esophagitis because my throat was now inflamed from the pizza and the spoon handle - I put the chewed up dough in a ziploc and returned it to the ER for an explanation - of course they thought I was crazy - but you do what you have to do. I have found that many doctors are either incompetent or on drugs (cocaine, meth, and others that they either sniff or smoke). That is why there is such a high malpractice rate (but that's another story). In fact, I see a doctor now who is a drug-abuser - but he prescribes what me or my family needs when we go to see him and we get well - but boy is he high - nice, though. That's my take on the ibuprofen in your throat.
We come in contact daily with much more true medicine sm
medical problems, diagnoses, treatment, that nurses do. I question my nurse practitioner, constantly, about why she is prescribing certain medications for me. She seems to have a lot less knowledge of these medications than I do. (btw, she resents it).
It is JCAHO. The most misspelled acronym in medicine! nm
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Nope. Many years working at the School of Medicine. SM
An MS4 is a med student till June graduation. He's "Mister So-and-So" then in June when he graduates, he's "Doctor So-and-So."
A 4th year resident is something else entirely. He is an R4 (or that's what they call them here). HE is an MD. The MS4 is not an MD.
Kids certainly not the reason for me, I loved the field of medicine
I had started working in hospital settings about 10 years before I ever knew about transcribing. Working at a hospital in another section my boss told me since I typed fast she had a friend who worked in MTing at the hospital, they had an opening and you could make extra money the more you typed, the more you could make. Being as my speed was 130-140, thought perfect job for me. I think loving the actual work rather than just doing to stay home is the main reason I have done as long as I have, no burn out for this person.
Have you done spyware scans, defrag, virus scan and reboot? All of these help me. Run spyware
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Oh good grief! No way. The only Dixie I know of is a forensic medicine person...
not a former bank manager. Maybe there are 2 of them.
Not normal
Actually, I love my company. It's just that every year after the 4th it seems to slow down for a short time. That's all. I have been with many companies that this has happened at, small and large. This is the best company and best pay that I've had.
No I get normal...
That must be a different account they have many accounts I do a VA account
8-10 u/l is normal nm
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Yes - CT and MRI, all normal. Dx as
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It's normal, like my mom used to say. . . sm
"In order to remember something new, I have to forget something old."
Truth is, you may be able to remember the pair of ice skates you got for Christmas when you were six, but you don't remember to buy milk for 2 days in a row.
My mom always said that her "brain was full of useless information."
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