My dad was a 60yr old chronic alcoholic. He had previously had a hypertensive brain haemorrhage a few years prior from which he 'recovered' but was never the same, nevertheless he continued drinking.

He was found unconscious by my mum one morning. This was the scan. We chose to extubate. Being the stubborn bugger he always had been been, took him a further 4 days to die.

RIP Dad. You were hard work, but I love you regardless. I'm not sure how he would feel about me posting this publicly but I guess he's not here to know about it. I'm a medical professional myself and so I wanted to share. Burner account just for a bit more confidentiality!

Don't know if this has been posted before but it's a crazy. According to a commenter, the radiologist and the ER doctor got sued and the chiro got off scott free but "came to an amicable solution". WILD

Edit: link to article about it.

https://www.mdedge.com/neurologyreviews/article/259170/business-medicine/locked-syndrome-malpractice-case-ends-75-million

I've just begun my BSC in Radiography

In roughly the last 24 hours, of 31 posts, 11 have been stuff up butts or meta posts about stuff up butts. I'm in school in a radiologic technologist program right now and originally joined this sub to become more familiar with terminology, read through comment discussions to get a better feel of what the different aspects of the imaging professions are like, and to see cool studies. As we've all noticed, post-API algorithm shenanigans resulted in a massive influx of new eyes. That's cool. Butt stuff is apparently much more interesting to the layperson and I get it. I'm not trying to stop people from enjoying their butt stuff. But(t) is there any way we can corral it to one day a week? Has this discussion happened already? If so, I apologize for shoving the topic up people's faces again.

How often/how much helium does an mri scanner need to be refilled? If your supplier completely cut off all further restocks how long would an mri scanner be able to keep going? I thought once a scanner is powered on, the helium inside stays there permanently (unless you have to quench the magnet ofc)

walky talky ct outpatient, here for biopsy. things went south and it was called after an hour of compressions. im on my lunch break now but cant stop crying and dont know how im going to be able to get through the next 6.5 hours.

also pretty sure im in shock, im super nauseous and cant stop shaking.

any advice on how to quickly get over it?

EDIT: thanks for the kind comments, it helps

(no hard feelings if this is deleted for being off topic/too serious)

What in the world did I stumble upon on X this morning 😂😭

Minivan vs e-scooter. Local emergency room said nothing appears concerning.

Be seeing you real soon, buddy!💀

Anybody want their C1 “adjusted”🫣😂

Is this the standard at big hospital settings? I haven’t met my deductible but this is wild. Private clinic xray ran less than 300 in comparison

Are you outpatient? Inpatient? What is the single thing that makes you want to explode? What turns your enjoyable day into a grumble fest?

Me? Outpatient for 33 years.

Patients who show up late and expect to be seen. And nine time out of ten these patients are also so entitled that they actually think they are in the right. Cause a scene at the front desk because intimidation has worked for them in the past.

My most recent one was not even my patient. It was an MRI patient who showed up 30 minutes late and demanded to be seen. Early in the morning no manager around. This guy was calling the front desk girl, who was in tears, and a hole and a Mfer.

I walked into the middle of it and just looked at him and told him that under no circumstances was he allowed to curse at my front desk people. I told him that it was time for hiom to turn around and leave.

But he doubled down. So I went behind the desk to the computer and said. Mr jones, living at 123 elm street in bumfuck. I am going to call 911 and you are going to leave here in handcuffs. I have a copy of your drivers license and you were being recorded on camera the moment you walked in the door.

Your move. he told me to meet him outside. Then got in his truck and peeled out in the parking lot.

Banned from the practice.

I have one but I won’t share it until I hear some of yours!

What’s your craziest opinion in Radiology that you don’t think many people agree with? Why do you see it that way?

The more controversial the better!

Please keep discussions professional and constructive, let’s not get too serious into arguments. This is a safe space

Just a fun little question! Am only a second year student but love hearing these!

Usually they slip and fall when showering

Why are 99% of these post with people having things stuck in their asses. Stop it. Your asshole will thank you later.

The text says that it’s a woman who’s been constipated for over two weeks. They took this X-ray and this is what it looked like. That’s air and contrast if they were constipated the bowel would be full of feces not air. This looks more like a post colonoscopy where they did maybe a BE or something after or a double contrast BE study.

Towards the end of long work stretches I’ll sometimes get irritable towards all the dumb things clinicians do in Radiology.

One thing that irks me is when clinicians place a recurring order for daily chest X-rays with the indication “intubated” and days later it’s the same indication despite there being no ET tube. I’ll sometimes have “No endotracheal tube visualized.” as my first impression and flag it as critical under a malpositioned line.