Job oportunities???

esaltares1 · Joined: 04 Feb 2010 Posts: 1

Is there any descrimination for male gender Radiologyst with a major in mamography and angiography in obtaining a job doin mamogarphies?
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hjhogle · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:16 pm Post subject:

I'm not certain what you're asking.

If you're asking about a Radiologist (who is a licensed MD who has specialized in INTERPRETING diagnostic images), the answer is no.

If you're asking about a Radiographer (Radiologic Technologist or R.T.), the general answer is that I have never worked in a facility that allowed males to perform mammography.

I hope that helps.

FROM GOOGLE TRANSLATE

No estoy seguro de lo que estás pidiendo.

Si estás preguntando por un radiólogo (que es un MD con licencia que se ha especializado en interpretación de imágenes de diagnóstico), la respuesta es no.

Si estás preguntando por un radiólogo (Radiólogo o RT), la respuesta general es que nunca he trabajado en una instalación que los hombres les permite realizar la mamografía

Espero que las respuestas a su pregunta.

hjh, RT

CigarPete · Power User Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 117

And yet.. hjh.. they allow male gynecologists and breast cancer surgeons. Is it the claim of radiography that male radiograpers are not professional enough to perform these exams?

Not that I want to do mammos.. but hey.. I say if anyone wants to.. Sexual discrimination should not determine their career choice.

Of course.. I'm not saying you personally feel this way.. just answering it because it was posted..

<huggles>

Pete

hjhogle · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:16 am Post subject:

Oh, I agree with you, CP.

I think it's archaic to prevent so many radiographers from performing necessary imaging procedures .. Back in the day (when exams now performed in the other places were done in the department AND when RT's did a lot of things they're not allowed to do now) I catheterized my own patients - male, female, peds - for VCUG's and cysto's.

I was simply explaining what I see - and I've never worked anywhere that had male RT's performing mammo.

hjh, RT

Debs · Joined: 14 Feb 2010 Posts: 2 Location: MN

Our facility had a male technologist that did breast ultrasound, but that was mainly due to the fact that he was the only ultrasound technologist available. He was not comfortable with that, nor were the Radiologists, so that ended and the patients were sent elsewhere for the exam.
In our case, it was more of a legality issue. The Radiologist stated that if the male tech were to do the exam, a female tech was to be in the room with them. Being short staffed most of the time, that did not work well.
As far as for mammograms, I'm not sure you would find enough female patients that would agree to have their exam done by a male. Maybe in a larger facility, but not a smaller one like ours.