Why I Want To Be A Radiologist
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Have you ever wanted to be the person behind the x-ray machine? How about being the person that reads and interprets the pictures? After enduring the many vigorous years of college, medical school, and getting all the certifications, you are ready to become a radiologist. When they are not sitting in the office reading the scans, they are doing minor procedures and speaking with patients. Becoming a radiologist is not one of the easiest tasks to achieve, you have to endure and succeed through all the college needed and you are required to go through multitudinous hours of training. The few that do succeed progress on to become outstanding doctors and find that it is well worth the work that had to be put into it. If a person wants to pursue radiology further, she would have to further her education, master the job responsibilities, work hard for the salary, and be willing to work long term in this field.
For Radiology, there are numerous years of education needed to …show more content…
Dr. Townsend interacts with patients, makes decisions on treatments, reads scans and even does small procedures on patients daily. Few may diagnose through imaging techniques such as oncologists treating tumors with radiation, and nuclear radiologists introducing radioactive materials into the body. A radiologist may need to comprehend how to use an x-ray machine, CT scans, MRIs Ultrasounds, how to target radiation to destroy cancer cells, and they may also need to do biopsies, drain abscesses, and open blocked or narrowed arteries avoiding major surgeries. They may also need to speak to the technicians and explain what images they need, talk to the patients and explain what they have found, keep detailed records of their patients, and make sure the images are readable and do not have to be
Have you ever wanted to be the person behind the x-ray machine? How about being the person that reads and interprets the pictures? After enduring the many vigorous years of college, medical school, and getting all the certifications, you are ready to become a radiologist. When they are not sitting in the office reading the scans, they are doing minor procedures and speaking with patients. Becoming a radiologist is not one of the easiest tasks to achieve, you have to endure and succeed through all the college needed and you are required to go through multitudinous hours of training. The few that do succeed progress on to become outstanding doctors and find that it is well worth the work that had to be put into it. If a person wants to pursue radiology further, she would have to further her education, master the job responsibilities, work hard for the salary, and be willing to work long term in this field.
For Radiology, there are numerous years of education needed to …show more content…
Dr. Townsend interacts with patients, makes decisions on treatments, reads scans and even does small procedures on patients daily. Few may diagnose through imaging techniques such as oncologists treating tumors with radiation, and nuclear radiologists introducing radioactive materials into the body. A radiologist may need to comprehend how to use an x-ray machine, CT scans, MRIs Ultrasounds, how to target radiation to destroy cancer cells, and they may also need to do biopsies, drain abscesses, and open blocked or narrowed arteries avoiding major surgeries. They may also need to speak to the technicians and explain what images they need, talk to the patients and explain what they have found, keep detailed records of their patients, and make sure the images are readable and do not have to be