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Alright, so BG: im an xray tech.
routinely (as in... at LEAST once a day if not far far more) after i get through taking a persons xrays they ask 'so is it broken?' or 'whats wrong?' etc. etc. soemthing along those lines.
I just reply with my standard line of 'i can't say anything the dr's gotta take a look and he/she will let you know if anything out of the ordinary showed up'.
due to the fact that well dr's have the medical training (one hopes
) to properly diagnose xrays. So yea legally i can't tell anyone anything about their xrays unless a doctors already looked a them and said 'yea that arms broken' or whatever.
Now if someone genuinely does NOT know that legally i can't say anything to them. fine. no worries. question asked, question answered and they're on their merry way.
My issue is the ones who ask and then when i tell them i can't say anything they reply 'oh i know you guys can't i just figured i'd ask anyways'.
why... that's like me asking 'so the earth revolves around the sun right?' 'yea' 'alright cool i know just checking'.
worst one of those was some teenage skater-type kid. had his xrays n asks the famous question. i reply 'nope sorry docs gotta take a look'.
and he keeps pestering me with 'come on you can tell me whats wrong?' (or variations of it).
after... roughly the 5th or 6th time of me telling him i couldn't say anything and him apparently just refusing to belive i wasn't gonna say something about his xrays i finally told him to get the hell out of my xray room since i needed it for other patients.
routinely (as in... at LEAST once a day if not far far more) after i get through taking a persons xrays they ask 'so is it broken?' or 'whats wrong?' etc. etc. soemthing along those lines.
I just reply with my standard line of 'i can't say anything the dr's gotta take a look and he/she will let you know if anything out of the ordinary showed up'.
due to the fact that well dr's have the medical training (one hopes
) to properly diagnose xrays. So yea legally i can't tell anyone anything about their xrays unless a doctors already looked a them and said 'yea that arms broken' or whatever. Now if someone genuinely does NOT know that legally i can't say anything to them. fine. no worries. question asked, question answered and they're on their merry way.
My issue is the ones who ask and then when i tell them i can't say anything they reply 'oh i know you guys can't i just figured i'd ask anyways'.
why... that's like me asking 'so the earth revolves around the sun right?' 'yea' 'alright cool i know just checking'.
worst one of those was some teenage skater-type kid. had his xrays n asks the famous question. i reply 'nope sorry docs gotta take a look'.
and he keeps pestering me with 'come on you can tell me whats wrong?' (or variations of it).
after... roughly the 5th or 6th time of me telling him i couldn't say anything and him apparently just refusing to belive i wasn't gonna say something about his xrays i finally told him to get the hell out of my xray room since i needed it for other patients.
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