In a message dated 09/29/1999 2:18:29 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << 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