Elizabeth, radiographer and member of The American Association of Radiologic Technologists and the American Society of Radiologic Technologists, works part time for The Bone Densitometry Center.
Elizabeth likes her “simple and stress free” job, seeing a minimum of 4 patients a day. Elizabeth says that her boss is nice, but that she doesn’t see him when she is at work.
After she drives her daughter to school, Elizabeth heads into work. When she gets to work, she warms up and calibrates the x-ray machines. She pulls up her patients’ previous bone density scans. Patients are scheduled in 30 minute blocks and the dexa scans take approximately 15-30 minutes. Elizabeth job also includes determining the billing code for each patient and sending this code and information to the insurance company.
Hearing her patients’ stories, especially her older patients, makes up the best part of her day. The down side – dealing with very sick patients.
Elizabeth wears a lab coat over business casual clothing. Her office provides coffee, tea, and water and she does not eat lunch at work, unless maybe a pharmaceutical representative brings in lunch.
Elizabeth does not feel that she is a typical American worker, answering, “No. I am a Mother first. This job is secondary. My family definitely comes before work. I feel very lucky that I do not have to work everyday. I only work per-diem.”
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