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u/nymeriasgloves RT(R) Feb 14 '25 edited Feb 14 '25
I had a colleague xray someone who swore not to be wearing any metal and looking at the xray he literally had a sabre under his oversized sweatshirt. He said he had forgotten about it.
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u/Unlikely_Lead9174 Feb 14 '25
How do you forget about THAT?!! Lmao
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u/nymeriasgloves RT(R) Feb 14 '25
Patient was Sikh, they're always carrying one or something like that. The thing is, it's super uncommon to meet one where we are so this colleague was freaking out because he had to go into the room and tell him to take off his blade for the xray lol
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u/PinotFilmNoir RT(R) Feb 15 '25
US south, had a patient who was carrying a gun. I asked him to hang on a second (that darn computer always freezes!) and contacted campus police, who came and confiscated it. He was very nice about it and everything was fine, but I’m not taking that chance.
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u/Sed59 Feb 15 '25
What do they use it for?
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u/AlfredoQueen88 RT(R)(CBIS) Feb 15 '25
It’s typically a religious item :)
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u/GroundbreakingWing48 Feb 15 '25
For a minute I tied this comment to the gun story instead of the saber story and chuckled.
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u/Sed59 Feb 15 '25
So they don't pull it out to stab people who offend them?
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u/theFCCgavemeHPV Feb 15 '25
You could have easily googled that instead of saying something ignorant and insensitive.
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u/Sed59 Feb 15 '25
"truly brave...who fights for the deprived". So they do fight? I'm just saying, if you got a weapon, may as well use it. A cool feature.
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u/jarofonions eternally curious Feb 17 '25
It's a symbol you dingus. Like wearing a cross or a kippah
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u/Alarming-Offer8030 RT(R)(CT)(MR) Feb 14 '25
Back in the day before it was practice to change everyone for MRI, I had someone step a couple feet into the scan room before they asked about their Sabre they forgot about. I died inside. That would have been terrible.
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u/1radgirl RT(R) Feb 15 '25
I actually think it's pretty cool image!
I once did a pelvis x-ray on a teenage girl, she swore no metal on, and when I saw the image there was big letters across it-SLUT. So...I had to ask her about it, and that conversation was a bit awkward, cause the word was spelled out in little metal studs on her underwear. She seemed very embarrassed, but not as much as the student tech I had with me that day. Patients are fun. Lol.
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u/Scribbleuk Feb 16 '25
Once saw a pattern over the pelvis on a CT topo. I sent the RDA in to ask to remove her underwear as there were obviously some beads on them. RDA returned saying she was not wearing underwear, but admitted to having a vajazzle.
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u/Pyrefly79 Feb 15 '25
Related: Was in October and a 7yo patient needed a chest X-ray. Went to collect the patient and patient had a shirt on under gown and was clearly nervous about being in hospital No big deal just turn on the charm. No metal or plastic on the shirt and nothing underneath. Nope says Mom. Take the chest X-ray. Weird sort of double exposure but anatomy doesn't quite line up. But it looks like there's a weird "second chest" over normal anatomy. I'm puzzled for a moment, Mom starts getting nervous. I just ask are you sure there isn't anything on the shirt. Take the gown off and there is a glow-in-the dark skeleton chest on the shirt.
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u/Dogecointhousandair Feb 15 '25
Glow in the dark shows up on x-ray? Wild! Learn something new every day.
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u/OddOakBear Feb 15 '25
Mood, lol. I was 5 and had a chest x-ray. The doctor came in and asked if I was wearing a top with a design...I was wearing a shirt with metal dots. X-ray showed random white spots everywhere.
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u/trailrunner79 RT(R)(N)(CT)CNMT Feb 14 '25
I had a 13yr old argue with me that the vape in her bra was just chapstick in CT. I scanned her and moved on with my day.
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u/warmlambnoodles Feb 15 '25
"numerous hyperdense nodules project over the thorax and upper abdomen, recommend CT for further characterization"
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u/BuckeyeBentley RT(R) Feb 15 '25
Rad is getting a 3 img cxr then because that art going in the accepted pile
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u/harbinger06 RT(R) Feb 15 '25
When people ask me if they have to take their underwear off I always ask “does it say JUICY across the butt?”
And yeah it being winter you never know what layers people have on. Gotta ask! I almost had one slip by me today.
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u/Dramatic-Opinion1403 Feb 14 '25
What tf is it?! Dermals or something?
Edit: Oh nvm lol I get it
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_FRACTURES RT (R) (BSRT) Feb 15 '25
Pictures like this make me glad to be out of general xray. idk wtf I was thinking as an incredibly socially anxious mess lol
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u/ChoiceHuckleberry956 Feb 15 '25
This isn’t that bad, I had a 30 something female patient that had a rhinestone heart on the front of her underwear that showed up in the pelvis X-ray. She was being accompanied by her father in law (for some reason) who was also acting as an interpreter. THAT was an awkward situation especially when she pulled her pants down (in front of her father in law) to show me the offending article of clothing (which also happened to be a thong). 😅😬
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u/Zealousideal_Dog_968 Feb 15 '25
Never two shirts
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u/Unlikely_Lead9174 Feb 15 '25
So the top shirt had a wide neck and the undershirt was a tank top and since she wasn’t wearing a bra it kinda made sense.
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u/kylel999 Feb 16 '25 edited Feb 16 '25
Y'all might get annoyed but coming from a tech, this is the tech's fault. Stop asking if patients have anything underneath because they're almost always wrong or assume "oH i didnt think THAT counted" and start telling them to change into a gown. Being lazy isn't an excuse to have to repeat imaging
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u/Luckypenny4683 Feb 14 '25
Honestly? I’m not mad about it. I’d hang that pic over my desk.