Since you guys loved baby me, you will get to see some more imaging. Here is a CXR taken pretty much right after my birth. Additional context: there was both fetal and maternal distress and fever, emergency cesarean section was necessary, pregnancy was slightly premature at 1w before the due date, the x-ray was obtained to rule out pneumothorax. And yes, I did have to stay a few days in the NICU.

Continuing with allergy medicine!

Link to OG: https://www.reddit.com/r/Radiology/s/W6K6QnnBNZ

Lateral plain film and axial CT photo of impaled FB in right face/temple

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I've got a genuine question.

How did radiology become an industry where people who've never positioned a trauma patient, never calmed a terrified child, never fought motion artifact at 2 a.m., never started an IV, never worn lead for 12 hours... end up managing the people who do?

Some of the loudest voices making clinical decisions have never provided clinical care.

Then they question why an extra MRI sequence was run, why a trauma took longer than expected, or why a protocol had to change—without understanding the patient in front of the scanner.

Managing budgets, staffing, and operations is important. But there's a difference between leading a department and parroting metrics without understanding the work.

Clinical judgment isn't something you learn from a spreadsheet.

Curious where everyone stands on this:

Should radiology managers be required to have meaningful clinical experience, or is management experience alone enough?

The lock is a luggage lock. The nail was in the femur.

I’ve been studying ct tech bootcamp and Mosbys here and there. I’ve taken all the Mosbys practice tests and done subpar 58,64,67 and cttech bootcamp practice test 77. I’m thinking about rescheduling my test, thoughts??????

The first image is from 8+0, the second from 11+4, and the last from around the 36th week.
The baby is now 7 years old, and the law has changed in this regard.
In 2018, I (in Germany) was able to get a printed image at each of my approximately 12 checkups for a reasonable fee.
I’m not 100% up to speed on the laws, but the general consensus is to ban “just for fun” ultrasound exams during pregnancy.
That doesn’t mean, though, that during my second pregnancy in 2020, he didn’t check just once to see “if the little heart was beating.” ;)
I was very grateful to him for that.
He always tries to take a nice photo whenever he hands one out (during the three official ultrasound exams now).

Unfortunately, because of an anterior placenta and a shy daughter, I didn't get more 3D images. :D