Re: Ultrasound--diagnosis or treatment?
From: art fougner, md (evsono@pipeline.com)
Fri Feb 23 14:22:32 2001
Btw - nuchal fold ala Benacerraf = high risk.
art
At Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Allen Worrall wrote:
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>Let me comment about all the threads that have been going around in the last two weeks.
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>I had a Jewish mother. There was never any doubt in my childhood about what I was going to do. I was going to be a doctor, and I knew that I was going to go to college and then medical school.
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>The problem, as I see it, is that ultrasound came about under the radiology system. The solution, as I see it, is to break away from that mold. That is what APS and UP is all about. Until sonographers are independent practitioners, we will always have the kinds of discussions that have been going on recently.
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>So, if you want your children to be sonographers, raise them up to know they are going to go to college, and maybe even longer.
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>Of course, we will have licensed practical sonographers, certified sonographer assistants, etc, since there will not be enough sonographers with BS, MS and Ph.D. degrees to do all the work. (I am not being sarcastic here). As you raise the standards, there will be fewer people going for the highest levels of training in sonography, and there will be (?already are) shortages of people to do the sonography, and lesser trained credentials will be available. Thus it was with medicine and nursing.
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>But that will be OK, because those who have the desire, intellect, opportunity and luck to become a Ph.D. sonographer will have the ladder to climb. And if it is spelled out for you as a child, it is very easy.
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>Joseph A Worrall MD RDMS
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art fougner, md
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