Stop the notion the more and faster is better! It is not. Pathologies are missed when we are not given adequate time and OUR bodies pay the price for trying to hurry and get images without paying attention to our body mechanics just so we can rush to our next patient.
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Neil McLean
5 years ago
Thank you so much for highlighting this issue - too often referrers and radiologists profess ignorance of the issues faced by sonographers. No more!
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ESTELLE SEAKAN
5 years ago
I had to give up my profession after 32 years because of injuries. The only concern from the management is making money. More cases more profit. They don’t feel the need to hire more staff to meet the demands. No one cares that it takes a
big toll on your body. I feel fortunate that I was able to leave the profession but not qualified to pursue jobs that pay as well.
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Ashley Siebert
5 years ago
Thank you!! Save Sonographers!
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Jaime campora
5 years ago
Thank you for advocating for all of us.
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Renee Brookshire
5 years ago
40 yrs.in the field multiple injuries and surgeries. Its unreal at the number of oatiebts we are scanning per day.All the repeitive motion creating injuries.Wre need to be able to do only so many per day.This is disabling many sonographers.In 1980 's it was unheard of.I am luving proof but broken down this job leads to being disabled when we are treated like a machine.The most operater
ependent job in the medical industry
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Frank Cirone
5 years ago
Save Sonographers.
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Glen carlton
5 years ago
At the moment in our department out of 4 sonographers one has a chronic wrist injury, and one had to stop scanning and retrain in MRI because of a shoulder injury. There has to be a limit at some point.
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Aubrey Cowart
5 years ago
So happy that someone is finally wanting to look out for sonographer well being and health! I hope this will start to make a difference
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Please help protect sonographers!
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Gloria Willoughby
5 years ago
Had right shoulder rotator cuff tear. Never got my strength back after surgery
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Sara salley
5 years ago
Find a new way to do sonograms. Try thermography
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Julie Holder
5 years ago
My current job for the last ten years recognizes these issues, but I have worked and witnessed many other locations that are putting their patients at risk due to scheduling and time constraints and placing their ultrasound techniques in a risky position for injury, mistakes, and mental burnout. Change is needed.
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Shawn Hill
5 years ago
Please help the sonographers!
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Anonymous
5 years ago
Please put this out there. I’m on arm surgery number two!
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Eric Braden
5 years ago
Cap the caseload.
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Kacy Rugg
5 years ago
Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
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Nicole Hoffman
5 years ago
10 - 14 patients a day is too many!! Our bodies aren’t disposable and there’s no biomed to fix them!
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Jennifer Pacheco
5 years ago
I scan in pain everyday. When I informed my manager about my pain, she replied, “You chose this profession.”
Stop the notion the more and faster is better! It is not. Pathologies are missed when we are not given adequate time and OUR bodies pay the price for trying to hurry and get images without paying attention to our body mechanics just so we can rush to our next patient.
Thank you so much for highlighting this issue - too often referrers and radiologists profess ignorance of the issues faced by sonographers. No more!
I had to give up my profession after 32 years because of injuries. The only concern from the management is making money. More cases more profit. They don’t feel the need to hire more staff to meet the demands. No one cares that it takes a big toll on your body. I feel fortunate that I was able to leave the profession but not qualified to pursue jobs that pay as well.
Thank you!! Save Sonographers!
Thank you for advocating for all of us.
40 yrs.in the field multiple injuries and surgeries. Its unreal at the number of oatiebts we are scanning per day.All the repeitive motion creating injuries.Wre need to be able to do only so many per day.This is disabling many sonographers.In 1980 's it was unheard of.I am luving proof but broken down this job leads to being disabled when we are treated like a machine.The most operater ependent job in the medical industry
Save Sonographers.
At the moment in our department out of 4 sonographers one has a chronic wrist injury, and one had to stop scanning and retrain in MRI because of a shoulder injury. There has to be a limit at some point.
So happy that someone is finally wanting to look out for sonographer well being and health! I hope this will start to make a difference
Please help protect sonographers!
Had right shoulder rotator cuff tear. Never got my strength back after surgery
Find a new way to do sonograms. Try thermography
My current job for the last ten years recognizes these issues, but I have worked and witnessed many other locations that are putting their patients at risk due to scheduling and time constraints and placing their ultrasound techniques in a risky position for injury, mistakes, and mental burnout. Change is needed.
Please help the sonographers!
Please put this out there. I’m on arm surgery number two!
Cap the caseload.
Registered Diagnostic Medical Sonographer
10 - 14 patients a day is too many!! Our bodies aren’t disposable and there’s no biomed to fix them!
I scan in pain everyday. When I informed my manager about my pain, she replied, “You chose this profession.”
Reduce their case loads!