Rad Talk

Medicine in the present, and the future

Episode 16
(00:01) - AI vs Humans reading your radiology studies, who would you prefer? Who is at fault for AI errors?
(18:00) - Aaron Rodgers tears his achilles. Gage and Dennis dive into how all the these athletes get diagnosed. 
(22:00) - We briefly talk about the difference between turf and grass playing fields.
(27:00) - Gage explains Dr. Neal ElAttrache performed a procedure where he placed an internal brace called a "speed bridge" on Rodgers' left Achilles.
(28:00) - Travis Hunter imaging for his injury cheap shot injury he suffered.
(30:00) - end of the show: Question of the day. 
 
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Credentials, and Tattoo’s OH MY

1 - 14 minutes: Credentials of ARRT Vs. ARDMS, RVT, ARDCS, RMSKS. What's the difference?
14 - 16 minutes: Magnet hospitals and ACR
18 - 33 minutes: Getting to learn about when Gage got his first tattoo and how many Dennis has or does not have. Tattoos in the work environment and how things have changed. 
20 Minutes: Do you know the plural of hepatitis?
33 - en of the show: Using each social media to grow the podcast. Editing is one of the hardest things.
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Follow the rules, it could save your life.

Episode 14!
1 - 8 minutes: Interesting MRI information you should know about MRI prior to having one! How much do you really know about MRI? Trying to understand just how strong the magnet is in the MRI machine compared to earth's gravitational pull.
6:40 - You get to see/hear Gage's reaction to a noise he wasn't ready for. :)
8 - 22 minutes: Gage goes full scale nerdy with us as he explains Quenching the magnet in MRI, and the various zones.
22 - 27 minutes: Issues with not doing proper prep prior to an exam and having to reschedule. How can we fully eliminate from patients not fully knowing what they were supposed to do prior to their exams appointment.
27 - 36 minutes: Having to take call to come in to do stat exams, and the effects it has on staffing, the patient, and the providers.
36 - 41 minutes: Looking at a patient with certain clinical symptoms and ordering an exam to diagnose the patient. The issue with this is if the provider knows that if they do diagnose this patient we can not treat them accordingly, so time can be wasted on exams when the patient could have been sent somewhere else and got the treatments they needed.
41 - 44 minutes: If you have kids ALWAYS know where the nearest pediatric hospital is!!!!! We can't say this loud enough because kids are people that are completely different than adults.
44 - end of the show: Question of the day
 
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Episode 14 is a really big milestone episode for us personally and we put a lot of great info in this one. Until next time friends.
 

Beware the traveler market is changing. Intersection of work and life collide

Rad Talk Episode 13
Beginning - 13 minutes: Traveler updates. How is the future of the travel market looking. Save up prior to getting into being a traveler.
13 - 39 minutes: Interacting with other healthcare workers. 16 minute is Dennis first unique interaction story. 19th minute Dennis tells the most unique travel story interaction he has had at a hospital.
40 - 49 minutes: Hustle culture. We all have the same 24 hours in a day to use.
49 - end of episode: Quick fire reactions to various questions.
 
 

Need advice, Ask!!

Episode 12 Rad Talk where sports and medicine collide
 
1 - 14 minutes: Our email to ZdoggMD aka DocVader (Dr. Zubin Damania) and how it went getting advice from him. https://zdoggmd.com/
14 - 17 minutes: Issues with the Rad Talk name coming up.
18 - 24 minutes: How old is too old to go to medical school?
24 - 32 minutes: Average people you see do something you wanna do, shows you how to do something.
32 - 40 minutes: Gage's experience being an attending for two months now.
40 - 42 minutes: Calling stat results and juggling doing exams.
43 - minutes: Gage's question of the day gets intense.
 
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Sorry, not Sorry!

Episode 11
1 - 4 minutes: Point of clarification from Gage. All technologists and sonographers matter and are important.
5 -  43 minutes: Gage deep dives into his first month as an attending using the "Grinding my gears" segment. Dennis starts us off with the first grind.
14 minutes: urgent vs emergent
25 minutes: in our opinion the most over diagnosed finding in ultrasound.
31 - minutes: Who calls the stat results the Rad or the sonographer? Which method is best for the patient?
43 - 52 minutes: Gage's trip to Dallas for a Post Malone concert
52 - end of show: Gage's favorite segment. Question of the day!!
 
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Healthcare world changes again?

Episode 10, Double Digits!!
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1 -  13 minutes: Gage is officially an attending radiologist via a couple weeks ago!!! He talks about why he chose radiology versus another specialty of medicine. Find out if Gage is an introvert or an extrovert? 
He goes over the big benefits of radiology that made it the right fit for him, and maybe for someone else out there as well.
Learn how close he was to thinking about going into pathology.
13 - 21 minutes: Why did Dennis choose to get into sonography versus other parts of radiology. Find out what Dennis Initially went to school for straight outta high school. 
 
21 - 23 minutes : We briefly touch on about the longevity of working in radiology. Musculoskeletal issues that may happen doing sonography. Also issues being a radiologist just being sedentary and sitting while reading all day. 
 
23 - 28 minutes: We answer if we would take the same career path again. Does the years of college and debt incurred weight on you as your going through school?
28 - 30 minutes: Which modality is the outlier of radiology aka red headed step child.
 
30 - 32 minutes: Traveling during covid, and traveling after covid. Dennis goes over why the pay is changing for travel jobs. The status of the market with travel jobs.
 
33 - 41 minutes: Other jobs are popping up that are not travel but people can fill specific job shifts that need filled. Could this be a future of medicine for full time people just looking for making quick money needs?
 
Question of the episode!!! Gage's favorite part!!
42 - end of episode: What is the ideal podcast format we would want to have?
 

Humans are perfect, Right?

Episode 9
1- 5 minutes: Beginning your healthcare career after you graduate. In sonography when should you take an image and when not. Don't be afraid to ask for help!!
5- 8 minutes: What it was like when Dennis went through school with competency to how it has changed. Doing competencies at various programs for sonography.
9- 10 minutes: A great B mode scanning tip for kidneys and stones. (try it out if your a sonography with stones and you wont do it another way again).
10- 12: Different ways to get students scan time and make the sonographers comfortable.
13- 20: Tips for new sonographers enter into the workforce. Gage gives great tips new rads and sonographers. Treat every patient like the people you love.
22- 24: Having to put the sonographer impression papers into the patient's medical records. Pros and cons.
25- 30: We have all missed things on accident and made a mistake. Different skill levels make a difference in everything you do. Experience is key.
30- 36: The amount of exams we do in the duration of a year, whenever you do something over and over it creates more opportunity to miss something.
36- 42: Once you are a new grad the amount of growth happens in the first 5 years is huge.
42- till the end: One or two things in general that you have learned since starting the podcast

Travel Healthcare housing tips!!

Episode 8
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1 - 11:30: Have a premade spiel when your messaging people on furnished finder, Airbnb, VRBO, Facebook.
11:30 - 20 minutes: Travel healthcare staying in your camper vs staying somewhere else. Big tip for first time camper buyers. Dennis traveled for 3 years in a camper so he offers tons of tips and tricks to help anyone thinking about doing this
It's a campground not a trailer park.
26 - 27 minutes: Funny story of how using your credential might not be a good idea
27 -  34 minutes: going through an ultrasound exam from start to finish so you know what to expect.
35- 37 minutes: Getting a second opinion from another healthcare professional happens and it is common.
38 - 46 Thoughts on MyChart for patients that have issues when trying to read it themselves.
47- the end: What type of charity would each one of us have, if we could have a charity. (These charities are very close to both our hearts)

Full Body SCAM!!

Episode 7
Welcome everyone to where medicine and sports collide.
1- 25 minutes we go over about the full body MRI scans. Our opinions on getting these and things you should think about prior to getting one yourself.
25- 49 minutes. We dive deep into our Miami Heat vs. Denver Nuggets picks.