In a message dated 09/29/1999 2:18:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< My personal experience in the past 3 months that I have been folded into
 Ultrasound is that it sucks....the mediocrity is unacceptable to me....I
 have a very difficult time with doing the ordered exam without a clue why I
 am doing it, and no concept of what the ordering physician wants to know at
 the end of the exam.  The physicians expect the Vascular techs to do the
 appropriate exam...not necessarily the ordered exam....to answer the
 question(i.e.: what is wrong with their legs?) and if they ordered Venous
 but there is an arterial occlusion, we do the right exam.  So I really think
 that the bottom line is the environmental expectations in which you work...
 Carmen >>


Carmen,

    Are you doing general sonography, or has the vascular dept been
transferred?

Kelly Estes RDMS, RDCS, RVT