Friday 11 December 2009

Ultrasound/Sonographers

I can't believe how busy i have been....with school stuffs, placements and revisions. Its been so so stressful, what in this life is not stressful? Thank God for God sha, I've been surviving and i will continue to.

My week has been really great,busy, tiring and interesting. I cant believe how many babies i've seen this week.....in the womb of course.

I wanna have a kid now, mmmmm no......not sure i'm ready yet.
Apart from scanning babies and breasts, i never knew ultrasound can do much more. The amount of information it can give is amazing. It can virtually scan any part of the body......I saw a few general scans as well, stuffs like ankles, shin, neck, arms, testes, abdomen, pelvis, kidneys and much much more.
Thank God for technology, it doesnt even use radiation, its completely safe, how cool is that? Very very cool.

Ultrasound seems to be female dominated. There are no male sonographers, there might be some but its not up to 10% of all radiographers. Not sure why this is. And its good money as well, I think they earn more than newly qualified radiographers because they have to do postgraduate to be a sonographer.

Now that i've seen most aspects of radiography, i'ld have to think about the one i like most.....so far, i love CT and general radiography. Ultrasound is good as well but MRI does not just appeal to me. I'm waiting to go to Nuclear Medicine, maybe i'll find it interesting. Lets wait and see.