Don

 My sentiments exactly!

J
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-----Original Message-----
From:         Don Ridgway <[log in to unmask]>
Date:         Fri, 21 May 2010 08:38:38 
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: RVT

We tell our students that a technician knows what buttons to push; a technologist knows why.

I've always felt comfortable being a tech, but I understand the push for "sonographer." Our field has always suffered from being too little understood and respected.

Don Ridgway




-----Original Message-----
From: UVM Flownet on behalf of Marie Sacco
Sent: Fri 5/21/2010 5:56 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: RVT
 
In my previous life as an RT, Technologist was define as specialist technician was an aid or some one who needed supervision to perform their functions. I am proud to be a technologist or a sonographer, but I'm with Kerrie I don't think sonographer means more to anyone else




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From: Kerrie Cumming <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Fri, May 21, 2010 11:39:41 AM
Subject: Re: RVT


I am proud to be called a technologist.  I never felt as though a "sonographer" had any more clout than a "technologist".  I think the tech abbreviation leads people to think technician. So when asked what I do, outside of talk with my fellow techs, I always say vascular technologist  :-)

Besides isn't it what you know that is important rather than how people may perceive you based on a title?

  I always thought it was just different titles for different areas of work.  Sorta like echo, sonogram, ultrasound...ect. mean the same basic thing.  Maybe I'm just naive.

--- On Thu, 5/20/10, angela tsiaknis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


>From: angela tsiaknis <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: RVT
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date: Thursday, May 20, 2010, 5:22 PM
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>Sorry if this has been asked before I must have missed it ...please repeat if it has:
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> Why are people with an RVT not considered sonographers...just techs??  If you go to a good school and received a Bachelors then went on to pass  the registry why are you "just a tech"??  last time I looked RVTs image bodily organs.  Thats why people have different creditials to make sure people are given proper credit for what they accomplish.
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>sonography, ultrasonography, ultrasound-
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> using the
> reflections of
> high-frequency sound waves to construct an image of a body organ (a sonogram); commonly used to observe fetal growth or study bodily organs
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>Angela 
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