WHEN THE X-RAY TECH TELLS YOU IT'S PERFECTLY SAFE
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As a former Xray tech, it’s because we do hundreds of these exams every month while a patient may only have one or two. It’s about exposure to the radiation.
I can confirm the validity of this comment due to the X-rayed thumbs up in your profile picture 😆
Me too!
I was about to comment that lol
That makes alot of sense
Still, from a patient's perspective it's not very reassuring.
Someone best explained the exposures this way:
Alcohol is seen as safe, so why doesn't the bartender take a drink each time a customer orders one?
Because they'd be destroyed by the end of the night and on their way to organ failure after a month.
But the hundreds of people they served alcohol to would be fine.
It's a matter of exposure.
Not a bad way of describing it
I think a better way of describing it is when you drink wine you are drinking methanol but there's not really enough of it butts if you like freeze distilled everything down instead of doing a proper distillation you would be concentrating the alcohol including the methanol which is where you start running into blindness from Homebrew
@@borttorbbq2556 actually its ethanol
@@sudarsananlekshmi2677 nope.
That analogy just makes me think "because the bar would be bank riot of they took a shot of all the top shelf shit all night if their liver survived the first few."
*X-Ray Technician:* It’s perfectly safe…
*Also X-Ray Technician:* Puts on thick padded jacket and locks themselves in another room
Yeah they are fine if you do it one time in a year but Doctors and nurses do it several times a day and if you are in that radioactive area so often you are gonna get sick
I bet this person treats the ER or urgent care like a hotel
I hope that you are being treated by a technologist, a technician has less training and experience than a technologist.
Because if we didn’t with the thousands of patients we see a month we would be dead. You get one once in a while. We are exposed to radiation several thousand times a month.
@@muhammedaksoy9604 doctors and nurses can’t take X-rays.
When you do this as a veterinary technician we can't actually leave the patient, so we get to wear big lead jackets and gloves and such we look like we're suiting up for a space launch.
Do y'all wear space helmets too?
Interesting!
@@Kitty_Sakura nah. Our holding apparatus are our hands and some long sandbags. Hence the need for lead gowns. And prayers that the patient is cooperative and not trying to kill us
High-five fellow sufferer. 🖐 I sincerely hope your work shifts aren't killing your soul yet.
Sometimes lizards are taped to rolled up towels so that they can't move while being x-rayed
As a radiologist, i can confirm 🤣
Dr Glaucomflecken says radiologists wear sunglasses indoors. 😁
@@dr.floridamanphd sunglasses on sunglasses.
Yeah sure you are
"Nahuwu uwu"
You're telling me..... That as a radiologist you're exposing patients to xrays? If so that's a first for me, in all my time I've never seen a radiologist even reach for the prep button
I know that XRay technicians have to do this for their own safety, but the concept of “this is totally safe, but I need to run away” is a little startling for patients
An X-ray tech said this in another post.
It’s about exposure. They do like 100 a month whereas a patient might only get one or two during their stay.
It adds up.
But as a patient that has had several X-rays over the years, I agree with you.
“If it’s so safe why are you hiding behind 6 feet of concrete?” 😂
@@dr.floridamanphd Not with our CCU doctors... One of them orders chest X-rays every day for every patient when he's on the schedule. @_@
And well you'd be terrified of how little some of these systems track CTs and exposure. @_@
That's why they place "The button" in the other room, so it seems that's the reason they have to step away. 🤔
@@yomama5304 The x-ray rooms in the departments have lead in the walls and there's lead in the glass observation windows. So yeah, the button has to be behind that.
Part of that is also because the exams we often need to do in those rooms use more radiation than the usual portable chest x-ray.
There's this thing called mAs that determines basically how much of a dose of radiation we're using. A chest may use 2 compared to an abdomen which may take 20. ( There's variances to this with just how much kV we're using, patient conditions, patient density etc...)
But yeah. @_@ We're in it all day ( flouro exams/OR cases in particular) and sometimes you can't avoid helping a patient hold position. So we get exposed in those instances too.
Time / Distance / Shielding are sort of the foundation of what we do. The radiation we shoot out isn't the main cause of concern, it's the 'scatter'. It's like firing a water hose. There's splashback of particles that got bounced around, lost energy, and are more likely to be absorbed than to pass through. The farther away you are, the less likely you are too get hit by them ( like a campfire or being in the splash zone). XD
Yeah I do feel like a sign in the room explaining this would do a lot to help calm patients down about this
“It’s perfectly safe”
Proceeds to walk across half the world 💀👌
It does feel like this as the patient.
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Not been the patient but have been one. I get it and so did they. Levels of radiation exposure lol
This is false information, an Xray tech would never go outside during the day
Hahaha I think the day techs might be day walkers. This is so true for night shift though. Sun. Evil. Hiss.
Turn the lights off...I can't see.
@@17h127 where is a vampire gif when you need one.
Shhhh. It's a joke.
Of course not, especially at high altitudes, it can affect their dosimeter reading.
As an x-ray tech I can say it’s safe for that patient getting one exam but we do multiple a day for years 😂😂😂
X ray tech: leaving the room
Person sitting: So, what are you saying again?
X ray tech: x ray is safe..
Person: I can see that!!
Getting x-rays done at the dentist is especially weird. They put a jacket over you and then zap x-rays straight into your head. Lol
Radiologic technologist here, it's kind of like the zinc on the lifeguard's nose. We are exposed to radiation every day, with some procedures lasting many minutes of fluorography time. Most people outside of imaging don't quite understand the risks or what we do in order to protect patients and other team members from the radiation. We are professionals, and have your best interest and safety in mind.
Or standing in theatre operating an Image intensifier with that one ortho who just doesn't want to wear his full leads but still shouts at you for not flashing when he says. We try to keep absolutely everyone safe even the ones who don't want to be safe. As radiographers it's out whole job. To produce diagnostic images in the safest possible ways. If only patients knew how many exposure factors we have in our heads so we reduce our EI values to give them the least amount of radiation possible
@@darkelemental Agreed completely. We're not just fancy button pushers, we are experts in our fields.
Obviously. As someone with knowledge it physically hurts me to hear someone say the phone, TV, microwave or the price gun at the store cause radiation and cancer. An X ray can emit 0.1 REM, not great not terrible. But the average person may get several in a lifetime. Most medical and government exposure targets are maybe 5 or 10 REM, which if we divide it by that, presumably you could receive exposures to 50 or 100 x rays, we would have to adjust it downward, because you wouldn’t be directly blasted plus any protection.
@@seanhartnett79 the funny thing is that old CRT televisions would produce x rays.
Yeah I don't think many people think it's actually unsafe. I heard getting an Xray is like the equivalent of spending a day out in the sun. No biggie for the patient, but I wonder how many of those an X ray machine operator does a day? So it's kind of funny watching them run out the room but I don't blame em
“I’ll be right outside… the country”
The continent.
Lmaoooo I remember being pregnant while working in the er and any time I would call for a portable X-ray, I would run soooo far to protect my baby 😂😅
I remember being pregnant as an X-ray tech and knowing how to protect myself and my baby so that we would both be safe.😊
I got an x-ray while pregnant but luckily it was just my teeth 😬
I pray you weren’t a nurse 🤦🏾♀️
Radiation Health Physicist here: basically if you’re 6 ft away you’ll get nothing. The dose the pt gets from a chest X-ray is the same as a round trip flight NYC to LA
Samantha B any diagnostic radiology exam is WELL below the amount of radiation that causes an increased risk to the fetus. You would need 100 chest X-rays & it depends how late in the pregnancy you are.
I mean... I have shot 1000's of chest xrays and I Never got to travel internationally during one.... damn I've been missing out!
I'm amazed, how I don't have cancer yet. I've been x-rayed many times already.
Modern machines are very safe nowadays. You get more radiation with flying than with one imiging.
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@@Bluehoshiflower good to know that, thx! just wanting to make sure: 15 years ago counts as "modern machines", correct?
@@Absbor I think unless you don't get an X-ray with that big creepy machine from the USSR, you are good.
@@Absbor Yes 2007 still counts as modern.
My friend was getting a chest X-ray done and the tech forgot to turn off the microphone and her manager was fighting with her 😂
That's how my mom felt when she took me to the dentist. She's very big on the ✨ radiation will give us cancer, so no more microwaves for us ✨
Microwaves can't emit dangerous radiation, actually the lights in your kitchen do emit a more energetic form of radiation, who is so small an energetic it can react with your eyes, this effect is known as seeing something.
EM radiation=light.
Basically x rays do emit ionizing radiation just not enough to hurt you. Now the x ray tech will get far more exposure.
50 bananas = dental X-ray radiation dose
The radiation was 700 outside two of our microwaves when it was on and the allowable is only 20 😅
Forget to tell him “don’t breath.”
Unless the body part moves when you breathe it won't matter if you're breathing while they take it.
@@17h127 for a chest X-ray you typically need them to inhale or exhale and hold their breath, depending on what the chest is being evaluated for (looking at the lungs, the ribs, or a pneumothorax). Holding your breath also reduces motion, giving ribs a sharper appearance. In some cases (not as common) you actually have the patient breath during a long exposure to blur ribs and have the structures underneath more easily visualized…
@@kimhod3803 yes. Anything that moves when you breathe we have breathing instructions for, except possibly a lateral t-spine or swimmers. When I tell them to breathe normally they breathe weird lol. Chest xrays of course we usually want inspiration showing 8 to 10 ribs unless otherwise indicated, and spine work, lower ribs, and abdomens we want suspended expiration. Proximal extremities, like shoulders, benefit from them holding their breath. Things like distal extremities do not usually move when we breathe so I don't give breathing instructions. Stevo didn't specify what he was xraying. I was simply pointing out that not all xrays require them to "not breath" [sic] because it doesn't always matter.
@@17h127are you a tech?
A real ED nurse just steps back 6 feet and covers his junk with his hands.
Eh, wears his exposure badge and clamps the bleeder with his fingers. Literally doesn't have time for frivolous BS.
What happens if you keep a tongue ring or a nose stud in during an MRI......asking for That Guy.
The tech would never let you, because they don't feel like losing their job and license just to find out 🤣
The MRI machine would pull them out causing you pain and bleeding. The ring or stud would then become stuck to the walls of the machine causing the need for a powering down to to cut the magnetic pull so they could be removed, something that’s very costly and takes time. The patients scheduled after you would all have to reschedule for another time until the machine could be repaired.
In the very unlikely event that we haven't asked you an absolute billion questions regarding piercings, or other metallic objects and you manage to get into the room. You'd quickly feel a slight pulling on the tongue ring. Usually we find patients immediately then move themselves out of the room. Same with any piercings because its definitely not a normal feeling. While the machine is idling, the magnetic field isn't drastically strong enough to rip it out of you instantly. If you ever did get to the table and the MRI 'spins' up then yes there's a chance it can be ripped off of your body, it would hurt like hell. We'd all get into a lot of trouble and the damn MRI would have to be put on a full shutdown to remove the piercing from the outer casing which is really expensive for the hospital because it takes a hell of a lot of power to do an initial startup compared to an at rest idle. Oh and probably a full decontamination clean because there's probably going to be some blood associated with it but we're used to that. My professional advice. Its best just to follow your guidance letter and the advice of your lovely radiographer
@@darkelemental Sometimes you can ask all the screening questions you want but there are patients who don’t answer truthfully. One guy was asked “do you have anything metal on you or in your pockets?”. He answered no. Tech put him in the MRI machine, starts scanning and the patient screams. Tech asked him what’s wrong and the patient answers “my gun hit me in the balls”. Turns out the patient had a gun in his boot that was covered by his jeans and the MRI pulled the gun out of his boot, up his jean leg and straight into his testicles. Poor MRI tech had to take a break after that.
U mean asking for a friend. LOL
Once in a blue moon is fine but every day as a tech can harm you.
When doctors go to another room for "1 second"
Absolutely inaccurate!!! There's no way we xray techs would ever expose ourselves to that much daylight!! 🤣🤣 sun=bad, darkroom=good
It's a joke. Jeesh
When you have to do about 50+ in a day yes the exposure to radiation at those levels is dangerous, 1 now & then.....no problem
The accuracy 😅🤣😅🤣😅
My man just travelled half the world in 20 seconds lmao😂😂😂.
That is so friggin great! Haha
Lmaoo, when I was working in the er and the xray tech told us he was about to begin you could see all of us nurses quickly drop whatever we were doing to go hide behind the wall and the technician would stretch the cable and hide behind the door.
I always thought it was so funny but I always made sure to explain to my patients why we were doing that 😂😂
Idk if it was intentional but the order of the monuments is actually very good as it travels from the us to Italy to Egypt to India to China, going from west to east
When I was working with radiology techs, we stay behind glass panels. Patients won’t experience as many x rays as those techs do on a daily basis
I just love that the landmarks were all in order from west to east! Anyone else?? No, just me?? Oh...🤷🏼🤦🏼💀
Yeah I saw that too 😂
Also Vets: I have to hold this tiny patient and stretch them out so we get a good picture, but its also hissing and wiggling and im wearing heavy lead gear. Do I choose the Lead gloves and risk having the Patient explode in my face with a screech or non-lead freehand style and hold the patient down, but also cancer
Wait why would wearing the lead suit make your pt explode, normally when we wear them it's for a baby because they won't stop wiggling
@@Yo_Vonny Sometimes they get very angy, do this special twisty thing and then Boom you got an entire face full of Patient ;P, Claws first of course!
That's not how it's supposed to be done
Finely I can relate to one of your videos as an x ray tech
X RAY TRUCK : IM COMING
I love this. I know about why this is true, cause exposure, but this reminds me of a news Collum where an X-ray tech was asked it they thought cell phone radiation was dangerous and they said it was
Someone told me that if a person with a male reproductive system has their phone in their front pocket it can cause infertility over a period of time due to the radiation. It seems believable to a point but I still have no idea if it’s true haha
I’m glad you finally made one for us rad techs 😂🤣 ok wait.. this isn’t accurate at all lol I get so much radiation it’s sad . You should do it like. “Sir put your chest to the board” Pt: puts back to the board lol
That patient expression in the end 😂😂😂
So funny,
Totally safe if your not getting scanned 30 times a day. 😁
And this is why I almost glow in the dark 😉
I love how the world call us xray techs. In the UK we have a protected medical title of, Radiographer. Im not sure what you guys have to do to become an xray tech, but diagnostic radiographers here in the UK have slowly over the years, taken some of the roles only ever done by Radiologists. So for instance, after further training we're given the title of a reporting radiographer. As the name suggests, we are then able to independently report on any films just like our doctor counterparts. We also do a lot more with CT, MRI, nuclear medicine and dentistry. The term xray tech just sounds, to me, a little less professional but i also understand that it's kind of like that around the world.
I think they're still called radiographers in the US but most people would probably have no clue what he was talking about if he had used that term instead.
We're called radiographers (or radiologic technologists) in the US too, but it's too long of a title, so most people just shorten it. Do people in the UK never have a shorter version of their professional title?
In Canada We are called Medical Radiation Technologist. But often just techs. Radiographer is not often used any but is still corrected.
The official term for MRI, CT, and X-ray techs in the US is Radiologic Technologist. But no one knows what heck that means and some people really struggle to say the word "radiologic" so x-ray tech is easier.
X-ray tech just rolls off the tongue a little easier for most people but yes we're still called Radiographers the same way an Ultrasound tech is called a diagnostic sonographer. It does sound watered down but it's still the same thing
I'm an x-ray tech and this is accurate😂 It must be weird to see me yell x-ray and watch everyone in the room book it to the door.
What every doctor does before x raying the patient
Hahhhaaa 😂😂😂😂😂😂 Yes, it does feel like that!!!
Do be be like that though
Actual footage of my dada finding milk
Yeah X-ray is safe. 3 min later doctor goes away inside of a highly protected room😂
The difference between one in a blue moon for a patient and multiple a day for a radiology tech.
X ray tech- “Put this vest on and stay right there don’t move”
Me- *watches x ray tech climb into a bomb shelter and lock the door*
That’s accurate, In Radiotherapy we leave for the Moon
X-ray tech: Don't worry. You're perfectly safe.
Also X-ray tech: *puts on half a ton of lead clothing*
Lol I hate x rays and most of all I hate the CT scans and MRI'S!!! lol screw you techs running from the room and sticking us in that tiny MRI contraption🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 I hate small spaces
I've was told by a dental nurse it was like being near a microwave lol
Or a computer monitor. Actually, a computer monitor is probably giving you more exposure, but it's still miniscule in 2022.
Insert bartender analogy here.
They be like it’s perfectly safe FOR U
3+2years od study, radiological tehnologist, aint no techs in here
As an x-ray tech I just have to say...Why didn't he ask the pt to hold their breath??? And we don't actually leave the room, we go behind a lead lined wall.
When we're doing a portable chest we do this. Did you forget?
I can confirm that we don't go outside, we run outside and the patient gets scared XD
Sometimes they follow us
As a physics student, i can confirm..
X-RAY TAKE COVER!
Doc: waves from behind bullet proof glass.
I like to think of it like sunburn. the patient will be fine standing in the sun for a few minutes, but the x-ray tech is in the sun all day everyday, so they need sunscreen
Literally crossed 4 continents😂
I like how he put all the places in order lol
Me who sits inches from a computer for 10 hours of my day: I know it's exposure to radiation that can be "dangerous" but honestly go ahead, irradiate me, can't be any worse than all the slight radiation and blue light I perpetually pump into my eyeballs all night every night lol
Haha, i like how the geographic sites are perfectly in a geographic line, Statue of Liberty in the United States, Pisa Tower in Italy, The Sphinx in Egypt, Taj Mahal in India, and the great wall of China from China, from west to east
Sir is there a lazer about to hit me or something 😂
The pen💀😂
Anyone else notice that he took a really weird path to china? He made it to italy, turned around to go to egypt, then turned around again to go to India and went north east to the great wall
My guy crossed the Atlantic sea, into Egypt, then halfway across Asia, then got on top of the great wall of China
Naaaahhh that's nurses hahaha xray tech myself
Commentors: Xray "technician"
Every xray technologist: raging internally
he be like right outside the door
My mom worked as an x-ray tech and she only stayed in shape by sprinting away before taking the x-ray
I remember getting an x ray once and the tech ran away like there was a live grenade in the room
Its like the banana radiation poisoning thing
Love how smooth he was.
Those walls are like 2 feet thick
The cut off clip
Doctor:wow I love the new paintings they put
It is safe as long as the technician locked in the safe room doesnt scream if it is safe now to come out
Without x-rays I would not have been able to have the 34 bones I broke fixed.
Law suit Agata Malecka
when they run out of the room after clicking the button. I say a little prayer lol
Then you see a bright blue light and hear someone yelling about a screwdriver and demons
Goes to Egypt to press the button... Perfectly safe. 🤣
Patients would get so upset about this lol especially the disgruntled ones 😂 I mean I get it
It's the lead shroud for me...🤣😂
I love how funny you make everything!! Radiation seems sort of funny now.thank you!!
The best thing is portable xray, because patient can see all of nurse and dr immediately 🏃♂️
He reminded me of Jeenie Weenie there 🤣🤣🤣
I love her!!!
Gotta get that personal time in.
So that's where my nurse goes okay
Just snorted so loud in my breakroom my coworkers looked at me like im insane ha
From across the unit...
Tech: TAKE A DEEP BREATH IN AND HOLD IT!
Last I got chest x rays, they brought the projector into the room, put the plates behind my back, and fired away. The tech never left the room.
I thought the space was going to be next 😂😳😳
Behind a led lined wall 😂 totally fine
Beep, huh, I need to adjust the plate....just one more
p: is it dangerous
tech: 🏃💨