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Re: 1978 ' Chompin' at the Bit 'From: Diana Ross (DRoss38040@aol.com)Sat Feb 17 20:22:56 2001
At Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Mark Lawson wrote: > >Greetings dear readers of history: > >Once you've scanned 20,000 babies I wonder if that fact enables one to >add to the historical thread. I sure hope so. > >So what to enter in first? Maybe some boring biographical data? I am >Mark Lawson. Born on the banks of the Delaware in April of 1954. ARDMS ># 4810 ...... yada,yada,yada > >I think I'd like to tell a little story about my first recollections >about diagnostic ultrasound. These recollections come about because at >45 years of age, My wife and I just had our first baby. I'm overwelmed >with the feeling of "my parents did this for me?" almost on a daily >basis. > >In 1978, I was "chompin' at the bit" to scan. As students we couldn't >scan right at first. Mainly left to "tape up Polaroids" and fiddle with >the buttons between patients. Finally allowed to scan because of some >mishap that the renal patient just scanned was in a holding pattern for >their routine IVP to follow, so they came to be: Patient #0001, 53yo WM >w/htn, resting supine as my teacher (Reynold Deyson) got up from the >seat, motioned me to command central and I bolted into position, snagged >the contol box to move the Rohe' scan head into the transverse IC+0 >position. The cold shock of the gel had worn off and the patient seemed >completely unawares. > >My heart pounded, as I stomped the scan footswitch the flicker faded on >the monitor as my first scan over retroperitoneal organs showed >nothing.... perfect, snap the polaroid move up a centimeter, "take a >small breath and hold it sir" not phased by the different voice, patient >#1 complied.... still nothing, click, whirrr, IC+3. > >Long story shorter I got the transverse images, marked the lie of each >kidney and scanned the long axis like I'd imagined 20 times before. >After several serendipitous opportunities like this, I was demanding to >scan as paybacks for all the waiting I had to endure and when not >scanning, it occured to me that if I'd had my druthers, I'd still be in >the ER, my first love. > >You see the move to Ultrasound was with the hope of a career that would >allow the support of a family someday. But this was so much fun, there >would be no way to be able to get a job doing this, let alone support a >family. My choice seemed doomed. Surely everyone scanning felt the >exhileration I did and the market would be flooded with sonographers >chompin' at the bit. > >Mark Evan Lawson, RDMS >Feb. 2001 Texas America Gosh! You just reminded me about how I had to kind of pull the transducer arm to fit the actual lie of the kidneys. Remember the "play" the thing had? All that about +1 and -1cm was more like "approximately +1/-1"!! Yep! In those days a renal sonogram took 45 minutes!
-- Diana Ross, RT, RDMS
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