Radiology

tenaciously to get into one of the best medical schools in India. Exposure to the field of radiology came while I was working as a primary care physician. Our hospital was located next to a major interstate highway in India, and I was impressed the way CT scans changed the diagnosis and management of head injury patients and saved precious lives. Our…

The Impact of Radiology in the Medical Profession Sir William Cecil Dampier once stated, "Great discoveries are made accidentally less often than the populace likes to think" (382). Radiology is one of these great discoveries that has had a major impact on the medical profession. Along with other forms of medical imaging, radiology has changed how diseases can be measured, managed, diagnosed, and treated. The various modalities of radiology provide for clearer and more efficient results, less…

Radiology Research paper Scientist Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally discovered X-rays while studying the pathway of electricity. He realized this when he saw objects in the picture that wouldn’t usually appear in a normal photograph. Roentgen’s discovery was soon after, advanced further by Dr. Harvey Cushing in the first diagnostic clinical X-ray. 1902 was the first year they were used for ground breaking brain surgery, he used the technology to view and assist removing malignant and non-malignant…

Interventional Radiology: Interventional radiology can use high amounts of radiation, which may not be very safe for patients. However, the technologists do all that they can do minimize the exposure to the patient. Having an interventional radiology procedure once a year is not that much radiation. However, if a patient is having an interventional radiology procedure many times in one year, that can be a lot of radiation for the patient. Interventional radiology procedures puncture the…

The book written by Kohn which was published in 1999’s Institute of Medicine report, entitled “To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System,” speaks about 98,000 Americans in the nation perish due to preventable medical errors. As a matter of fact, the aggregate annual number of death from every hospital in is greater compared to the number of vehicular deaths, individuals dying from breast cancer and even AIDS (Kohn, 2000). To date, there are measures that have been adopted by hospitals,…

healthcare system. To a patient, these are normal tests that one may experience during their life. However, in the world of medical billing and coding, these are not any regular test. These and other tests completed by the radiology department are coded unlike most treatments. Radiology coding is often billed by technical and professional components. When components are used is when the total cost of service is separated. By separating the components, the two parties involved can both be…

summer of 2014 and recently on the 13th of January this year (2016), I had the opportunity to see the work environment of the medical imaging / radiology department. It was neat being with the doctors, nurses, and technologists watching them give x-rays, do an ultrasound, CT and MRI scans, nuclear medicine, and even a few procedures in Specials. In the radiology department, the workflow varied on different days. It varied depending on the number of patients they received. The staff worked…

Safer Radiology Culture The Department of Radiology, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, launched their patient safety program in 2006. The Cincinnati children’s radiology department assessment showed they had one serious event happening about every 200 days. The department of radiology found to improve patient safety, three significant cultural changes needed to happen: identification, accountability, and open communication. (Donnelly, Dickerson, Goodfriend, & Muething, 2010) In radiology,…

digital medical imaging is no exception. Endless opportunities abound with the vision of the all-digital radiology department. The digital transformation allows for new practice models, new clinical applications and added benefits for both patients and stakeholders that may have only been imaginable in the not so distant past. This document will outline the key elements of the digital radiology department, the effects, benefits, disadvantages and considerations required to make an informed…

another “I should of” or “I could of” story and due to past experiences decided to look into the medical field, particularly radiology, and what it had to offer. After doing some research and looking into my options, I decided to come to south college and peruse an education in radiology. If I were to be asked why I choose radiology, I would have to say because radiology, in my opinion, is the starting point for many medical decisions and is an invaluable…