Today has not been a good day for me as expected. Before the commencement of work today,while i was cleaning the room in preparation for the day, my left eye twitched. In my heart, i was like "oh no!!... wonder what's going to happen today?" Then i swapped the room with another of my colleagues as she was not properly attired and was asked to cover duties for one of the colleagues who was on medical leave.

So there i was happily doing the cases until the long spine cases came in. As i has not been orientated before for the cases, i seeked help. The erect bucky was alright... i saw R doing it before.. and she also shown me how to stitch the images too. The real "killer" came when there were request for left and right bending. Nobody has demonstrated to me how to use the trolley before. So naturally, i approached someone else to do the case and something went wrong after that. Later, i realised that there was a certain orientation to the trolley and the cassettes before we could obtain a well aligned image. And the worse thing was that, she did not do as supposed which resulted in errors and have to repeat again. As it was near end of her shift, she just asked me to repeat the views without explaining what's wrong with them. Another person also dunno what to do and the mess just snowballed. There should be a more systematic ways to do things lor. Later, then i found out that the cassettes were orientated upside down which resulted in the misalignment and that placement of the patient would also affect the alignment of the images. The final straw came when someone told me later that one folder could only stored about 6 images anything more than that will result in errors. Then why in the first place, u never do that. We have definitely more than that lor . It would definitely help the patient in reducing rad dose. i was utterly pissed off manz. i finally got the images requested with the help of those who are willing to stay back for a while to settle the mess. Thank you pple.....