Medical Imaging.

[LODI QUACKER]

Hell I know what pet/ct is this is what I didnt understand

The Radiology Today rags have stuff all over the place...great field unless you are looking to get in PET CT...reimbursements are getting tanked.
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[MUD DUK]

Wife is lead tech at Kings Daughters in Yazoo City, they use "night people" pm me if you are interested.

[Duck Nawteek]

Strongriver said:

And yes Lonesome Doe is still looking for u duckn.

Good tell them I want to join LOLOL!!!!!!!! Yall lookin for some new members? I hope you have improved on your shot gun skills from the last time I hunted with ya

[Duck Nawteek]

Lodi, I talked to my friend at River Region and he said he would call you or you call him but he said he would fill you in on exactly how much you would make and if there are any jobs out there, he also has a buddy that works in Nashville. So holla back at me.

Brad wrote:

My ex went through the same thing, came out of umc and went through hell finding a job. She was having to compete with all the juco grads with 4.0s She now is making a little over half of what the market was paying when she entered umc.

That's the advantage of going thru a Juco program is that you get your foot in the door at other hospital vs. just going to UMC. or a hospital based program. Now yes UMC pays the most right now for Rad techs, but for CT, MR, Nuc Med. all the other hospitals and UMC are about the same starting out. The people who are making good money right now are the ones that got into the specialty modalities about 6 to 8 yrs. ago when the demand was there and they could name there price. Now every chick that can't pass nursing school wants to go to rad. school. I'm hoping that they realize that there are no jobs out there and eventually quit appling to these schools and the market will stablize. Until then keep the job you got and hold on to as many PRN slots at other hospital as you can get.

[SoftCall]

Hell I know what pet/ct is this is what I didnt understand

The Radiology Today rags have stuff all over the place...great field unless you are looking to get in PET CT...reimbursements are getting tanked.
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LODI - are you talking about the opportunities that I mention or the PET CT reimbursement issue? There are opps out there...maybe just not in MS...

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/57709.php

Any way the Deficit Reduction Act whacked PET and PET CT scans to the point that I don't consider it a viable modality...read the following link and note the quote ... "With DRA's implementation, the dramatic difference between reimbursement rates under MPFS and HOPPS could reduce payments for PET and PET/CT scans by as much as 70 percent," ...

and another...

http://www.healthimaging.com/content/view/6589/68/

"Reimbursement cuts are hindering the development of PET imaging, says Larhs. “For the past few years, the move has been to support PET in imaging. This is the first time we are getting a blow [in reimbursement] and it is quite a significant blow.”

If you know something different, please let me know...I am having a VERY tough time finding a buying opportunity for my Customer IDN's on this one...

Other modalities do well with our contracting initiatives like radiology and cardiology ultrasound, CR (if you really consider this a modality...CR Mammo may turn the corner if there are other solutions besides Fuji to drive price points down, RF, CT, CCL / Angio, Digital Mammo and DR.

[Skeeter]

The best ct scanner is a GE. Everything else sucks. And yes Lonesome Doe is still looking for u duckn.

NO.....I work in Medical sales and my company has developed a surgery that requires a CT cone beam scan with a minimum of slices.....yes, how low you can go on your slices and how fast are how you rate how good your CT scanner is......the GE cannot even perform half of the surgical software programs for medical surgeries......most medical based surgeries that require CT scans need .3mm to .5mm slices, the GE can only go to .625mm.......and yes, that sucks....it has hendered a lot of business around jackson for me, simply because the hospitals around here claim they have the best CT scanner, yet they cant do anything surgical wise....the guys who are really up to date are the actual 'imaging centers' that are privately owned.....these hospitals around here scare me.....and in my company, in ALL of the US, I seem to be the only one behind the curve, meaning my area, Mississippi.....go figure....last in everything except number of blue gums....

IMO.....the best are iCAT and the Hitachi......

the MS market is very, very saturated.......you should be able to find some help...

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[pkphunter]

i do ct at st.d. as far as pay goes we are pretty much in line with the market. ive been lookin for jobs in nashville and they seem to pay about the same for a registered ct tech. if anyone has a contact in nashville i could sure use the help its a tight market there as well. i use a ge 64 daily and have for over a year. i am amazed daily at the speed at witch it aquires images the recontructions on the adw workstations is amazing as well. i would be real interested in using the dual source 64 slice i cant remember if it is phillips or siemens. word is you dont even use beta blockers for a heart.

[Locked Up]

If you don't mind coming to Tuscaloosa AL, we have JOBS!! I work at a hospital called DCH, we have a 700+ bed hospital, a OP center, and a Level 1 trauma center. I think our ER is up to about 70-80 beds now with a CDU unit. We have had several Grads from Meridian, DSU come over because of the job shortages in MS and the pay being much higher. This is just what they have told me, haven't compared the 2. DCH pays for your experience, not how many years you have invested in them. Most of the time they have sign on bonuses for 1yr contract. We have MS grads in diagnostics, MRI, Angio, and Cardiac Cath Lab presently and just lost one to UAB in B'ham for a little more money and 1 to Rad therapy school. I work in CT and we have all GE with the exception of 1 Jap 4 slice that is used just for Angio Bxs. We have a total of 6 scanners and they range from 64 to 16 and the slow booty 4 slice. Our Dept Head has bought a 64 for our ED to upgrade, but I think that is overkill but it will be fast. Have Viatal on the 3 3-D process stations for the CTA's. Diag, Angio, MRI are all GE also. Our CT dept the last 2 years did 2005 over 40,000 exams and in 2006 over 43,000.
Also, if you are in the military you would fit in great with our director, he is out of the Army aswell, did rad in the military and went back and got his business degree and then a masters in hospital managment.
I didn't realize that there are so many Rad folk on here, let me know if you need any more info, they have a web site.
Champ7 ARRT (R) (CT)

[ducksak]

Im not saying which scanner is best cause I havent worked with all of them but it is not all about how many slices. I want user friendly equipment. If the software sucks you can take that 164 slice and throw it out that window. also is it really worth all the money on a scanner for surgery that will not have the amount of use a regular scanner would? UMC is supposed to get a new 128 slice dual source scanner but by the time we get it, it will be obsolete.

[strongriverducker1]

I don't hunt there anymore, but the would be glad to see u, the silver bracelets are still waiting for u. As far as the shooting commit ha ha

[Duck Nawteek]

Strongriver wrote:

don't hunt there anymore, but the would be glad to see u, the silver bracelets are still waiting for u. As far as the shooting commit ha ha

BAWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! You got to be kidding me. Hell no wonder they never return my call about joining. I guess they were afraid of me killin all there ducks.

[jbwilliams]

My wife graduated from bchs with honors in radiography a year ago. She jumped right into a nice job at a neurology clinic in cordova doing ct, mri, and carotid ultrasounds. She is starting Ole Miss this fall for a doctorate of pharmacy. I almost had those school loans paid off but maybe I can retire when she gets done

[bradrussell5]

No imployer cares if you had 4.0 in JR. college

maybe they should

[SKEET16]

ducksak get the hell away from ct why you can interventional is where it's at.

[ducksak]

Actually I want to travel some while I am young. I dont like the call in interventional.