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1) Know why you're ordering the study.
2) If your patient is crapping out and you have no clear idea what's going on, but it can't be good, just say so-we've got your back.
3) If it's a bull**** study but it has to be done anyway, just say "I know it's a bull**** study " so we can triage it appropriately.
4) Do yourself the favor of knowing if the same study has already been done in the past 24 hours-because repeating a bull**** study is very. ****ing. annoying.
5) If you give us the clinical information, we might be able to answer your question more easily, or suggest a better way.
6) If it's semi-urgent, but you've just got to take care of something else, leave us your pager number, say it's semi-urgent but you've got an emergency to attend to.
7) If the attending wants the study for no apparent reason, say "I don't know why my attending wants the study,it doesn't make sense" -Maybe he's covering his ass, maybe not. After a while, we learn who orders relevant studies and who doesn't. Then we won't give you **** about it.
8) Anything that you're ordering for scheduling purposes, e.g. gallstones, d&c, etc.. is not urgent.
9) re 8) Urgent is-trauma, stroke, appy, pneumothorax etc. Anything that might seriously affect the patient in the very short term.
10) "I don't know, it's not my patient" - not very ****ing useful. Can't triage with it. Can't use it for a differential. Can't even tell you it's a bull**** study because it's not your patient. Not even good for entertainment purposes, as in " hey joe(fellow radiology resident), that ****ing dip**** medical resident tried to start a right chest line, gave the guy a left pneumo, then ordered a leg doppler because the guy was short of breath." -we can't even get a laugh out of it. And that's just sad, because if we can't laugh at ourselves, wait...sorry... I meant if we can't laugh at you.... well I'm sure you guys get your laughs at our expense too. Isn't it fun?
Seriously, just get your **** together and be honest.
2) If your patient is crapping out and you have no clear idea what's going on, but it can't be good, just say so-we've got your back.
3) If it's a bull**** study but it has to be done anyway, just say "I know it's a bull**** study " so we can triage it appropriately.
4) Do yourself the favor of knowing if the same study has already been done in the past 24 hours-because repeating a bull**** study is very. ****ing. annoying.
5) If you give us the clinical information, we might be able to answer your question more easily, or suggest a better way.
6) If it's semi-urgent, but you've just got to take care of something else, leave us your pager number, say it's semi-urgent but you've got an emergency to attend to.
7) If the attending wants the study for no apparent reason, say "I don't know why my attending wants the study,it doesn't make sense" -Maybe he's covering his ass, maybe not. After a while, we learn who orders relevant studies and who doesn't. Then we won't give you **** about it.
8) Anything that you're ordering for scheduling purposes, e.g. gallstones, d&c, etc.. is not urgent.
9) re 8) Urgent is-trauma, stroke, appy, pneumothorax etc. Anything that might seriously affect the patient in the very short term.
10) "I don't know, it's not my patient" - not very ****ing useful. Can't triage with it. Can't use it for a differential. Can't even tell you it's a bull**** study because it's not your patient. Not even good for entertainment purposes, as in " hey joe(fellow radiology resident), that ****ing dip**** medical resident tried to start a right chest line, gave the guy a left pneumo, then ordered a leg doppler because the guy was short of breath." -we can't even get a laugh out of it. And that's just sad, because if we can't laugh at ourselves, wait...sorry... I meant if we can't laugh at you.... well I'm sure you guys get your laughs at our expense too. Isn't it fun?
Seriously, just get your **** together and be honest.
