Bart, as usual, just jump right in there and put everything in perspective,

why don't you?  Seriously, I have seen more and more new techs coming out

of school with their techniques embedded like newly minted coins in their

brains, and it's probably a good thing to see that there are many many

different ways to scan and get good results, right?  I, myself, have found

there are many ways to do the same things and get the same results over the

years.  Painful as it may seem, I believe it was you who taught me "Learn

something new everyday, otherwise you may as well just lay down and die",

wasn't it?  Anyway, it sounds like something my first mentor would have

taught me.  Take care, my friend, and let's keep the schedules open.  Love

ya!

Shirley McLean



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> From: Barton A. Bean <[log in to unmask]>

> To: [log in to unmask]

> Subject: Re: Scanning positions

> Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:24 PM

>

> Boy is everybody crazy?  Do what you have to do!  Stay flexible!  Adapt,

> grow learn and don't get rigid!! We know what happens to arteries that

> get rigid so I'm ridgidly against calcification - particularly of

> categories!

>

> Bart Bean

> >

> > -----Original Message-----

> > From: UVM Flownet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Don

> > Ridgway

> > Sent: Sunday, September 12, 1999 8:24 PM

> > To: [log in to unmask]

> > Subject: Scanning positions

> >

> > This isn't what you'd call Earth-shaking, but there's a bit of a bet:

> >

> > What position are people taking relative to the patient when scanning

> > carotids? I'm still of the old school, sitting behind the patient's

head.

> > Another tech tells me nobody scans like that any more; he stands at the

> > patient's side, facing the patient, much as one would doing an

abdominal

> > scan but a bit farther toward the head.

> >

> > Could I ask for a bit of a survey? There's a lunch riding on this. You

can

> > reply straight to me so as not to clutter the Flownet up severely:

> >

> > [log in to unmask]

> >

> > Thanks a ton.

> >

> > Don Ridgway

> > Grossmont Hospital

> > Grossmont College