SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ULTRASOUND SCAN AND SONOGRAPHERS

Ultrasound Has Nothing To Do With Speed:
Every patient deserves the best care as much as possible including ultrasound examinations (when needed). A thorough examination takes time. When a pathology is identified, it means more needs to be searched for, since many are linked. One anomaly likely means there are more. Stop rushing medical sonographers when they’re working. There’s no correlation between speed and a good ultrasound report.

The Ultrasound Machine Doesn’t Literally Tell The Findings: Some people think the machine outrightly says ‘Hi RMS Eric, this is adenomyosis’ or ‘Hi RMS Cornelius, this is Dandy Walker Malfomation’. No! It’s the Sonographer that has to first be able to know there’s an abnormality, sometimes correlate the images with the patient’s history and critically think to finally write his or her impressions ie diagnosis.”

One Bad Report: Yh yh yh… they say ‘one bad report and a Sonographer is canceled’ wow… such unfairness. If a Sonographer has been writing great reports (by great I mean their reports have helped in managing your patients always) and then just one time, due to an error, one that possibly any other colleague  could have missed, you go ahead to discredit the medical sonographer entirely? Ow wow…such a high demand for perfection.

The Scan Lady/ The Scan Guy: Please, we’re Medical Sonographers or Gynecologists or Radiologists or Sonologists handling your case. You might wanna be kind with your approach. We’re not ‘scan men or women’, thanks. Some even call us ‘photographers’. C’mon ma’am lolx.

DDX: I said it could be this … I didn’t emphatically say it is. If it ends with Ultrasound, then CT, MRI and other imaging modalities wouldn’t have been made. Please, try them too. Better to rule-out than ignore and later say ‘I wish I followed up with the recommendation’.

RMS: Registered Medical Sonographer.
Now put some ‘respek’ on my name. Ouch my shoulder, ouch my back, ouch my neck… oh I just remembered… I couldn’t stretch enough today. Had anomaly scans, Doppler for both legs, and other cases and it took me about an hour for each case as I had to write their reports, which also needed time.

Now may the ‘gray’s of God be with USg