US won’t come in if pain >12hrs

[u/Former_Bill_1126]

Working at a new site, US techs are very picky, will not come in for torsion studies if pain is >12hrs. I talked her into coming in and she’s pissed af, said she knows I’m new and “I’ll learn the protocol”.

Am I in the wrong?

Edit: Does anyone support the US tech or rad protocol and do you have any studies or evidence to support this practice? I’m just wondering if they pulled this out of their ass or where they got the arbitrary 12 hour thing?

[u/KumaraDosha → u/[deleted]]

See the thing is, you don’t! You absolutely don’t have to lie. Tell us it’s necessary (and if you’re feeling charitable, explain why, but you don’t have to) and to come do the scan or we’ll be reported. Like, duh.

[u/suedesparklenope → u/[deleted]]

1. No control over our lives? That’s just unnecessarily condescending and mean.
2. We don’t think we’re the gatekeepers of shit. Our rads write the imaging protocols. We follow the imaging protocols.
3. You want protocol changed or overridden? Call the rad. It’d be strange for you not to have the number… but if for some reason you don’t, the operator surely does. And if it actually takes you an hour to get a rad on the line… something else is afoot.

[u/4883Y_ → u/suedesparklenope]

So tired of the disrespect and shooting the messenger when we’re literally just doing our jobs and following the radiologists’ protocols.