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

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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