Lisa Jones

Lisa has been an RT for over 10 years. She currently does around 40-50 exams per day in a super busy ortho clinic. She knows what it means to hustle and enjoys sharing her extensive experience on this blog.

Making Radiology Fascinating: Tips for Presenting to High School Students

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As a Radiologic Technologist (Rad Tech), you have an incredibly unique and exciting career filled with everyday challenges and triumphs. However, when you’re tasked with explaining your role to high school students, you may grapple with how to make radiology fascinating and relatable to them.  After all, radiology is a complex field encompassing advanced technology, …

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Supine or Upright Chest Xrays on Children Under 2 Years Old – Yes or No?

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How do you feel about doing supine or upright chest xrays on children (2 yrs and under)? This is a compendium of several responses to the question about chest Xrays on children under the age of two. Many Radiologic Technologists answered the question listed in the title. Short answers of less than five words were …

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Double Shielding for Pregnancy?

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Double shielding means zero radiation? Here we go again. Don’t forget, I wrote about the future of shielding over six months ago in an article called “To Shield or Not to Shield…Ou Patients.“ I even interviewed the main author from the American Academy of Physicists in Medicine who says we should stop shielding. The podcast …

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