Beijing, a tertiary hospital radiology director Wang introduced: "Now many universities have a diagnostic radiology specialty, undergraduate graduates can not become a first-class hospital doctors, in general, well-known tertiary hospitals recruiting doctors are masters or PhDs in radiology. They not only need to get a physician's license, but also a large equipment license." Professional radiology doctors and technicians must take the radiation protection certificate, the state every year to organize the training of new entrants to the profession, after the training exam.
In the early 1980s, China's medical universities have not yet opened radiology medicine, medical students are to the hospital before the sub-specialty. Director Wang is 1983 began to engage in radiological work, to now has been nearly 30 years, he engaged in radiological work is a coincidence. He said: "I graduated from college, to the hospital sub-specialty assigned by the leadership, at that time, our hospital radiology professional just to enter a lot of advanced equipment, need to be operated by a good university students, although at that time, I knew that it may cause some harm to the body, but the leadership assigned or to obey."
The same attending physician working in another hospital, Dr. Shang, is engaged in radiology work has also been 13 years, she said: "At that time, the choice of this specialty is due to the fact that you can not have direct contact with patients, and do not have to face the doctor-patient disputes."
In most people's consciousness, radiation is the same as harm to the body. People are becoming more and more concerned about their health, and most pregnant women go out on the street wearing clothes that protect them from the sun's radiation. Aren't radiologists and technicians even more dangerous?
Dr. Shang said: "Now are compartmentalized operations, theoretically there is no harm. My family are doctors, girls do radiologists do not have too much to worry about, as long as the protection of good words, and did not imagine so terrible."
The degree of damage to the body from radiology work varies from person to person. The above-mentioned director Wang introduced: "Now the level of major equipment has been greatly improved, staff exposure to radiation is also less and less, in addition to do interventional therapy, angiography staff, almost all compartmentalized operation."
So it seems that the health of the staff at the technical level can be guaranteed. But the rays are no longer less, there is no benefit to people, the size of the damage is determined by the size of the individual's sensitivity to the rays.
Director Wang said, he joined the profession when there is no compartmentalized operation, and he worked with him in the radiology department, one of the three doctors were transferred, because the blood image examination of his white blood cells, red blood cells fell dramatically. Radiology staff in the regular blood image examination, certain indicators below normal need to suspend the work of exposure to rays, change to other work, to be normalized before resuming machine operation, such as recheck is still not normal, then need to be in accordance with the relevant provisions of the State treatment, rest.
All new to the radiology work of the personnel must be made first physical examination and blood test and deposited in the health file. For the hazards of radiology work, an expert explained: "Radiology staff did not have cases of sudden death due to occupational diseases, but lymphoma, cataracts, hair loss has been, but not because of the death of such a disease. The damage is not as serious as people think, people are a bit one-sided to exaggerate the radiation damage, in fact, there are many things in society that are more harmful than this."
The hospital's radiology department is equipped with protective clothing, as well as test equipment, usually work with protective plates used to measure how much radiation doctors receive at work, basically will not exceed the standard.
Director Wang said frankly: "Radiology or male doctors are more appropriate, because female doctors face problems such as pregnancy, technicians are trying to be male. Although the state does not have special care for women working in radiology in relevant aspects, but the hospital's radiology department will still try to arrange vacations during their breastfeeding period."
It is understood that the operator exposure, should be operated in the control room, such as the need for operators in the machine room, must wear a lead suit, lead gloves if necessary, to prevent radiation damage. Normally engaged in the first-line radiological work, they also carry a ray amount of excess measurement device (radiation test plate).
Radiology staff have to undergo a mandatory comprehensive physical examination every two years, which is also the state's protection for radiology staff. During the medical examination, if there is any physical damage caused by radiation, you can request to switch departments. Every doctor has a radiology health record that is kept in the hospital's medical office after the physical examination, but retired radiology staff no longer enjoy this policy. We all know that radiation damage is a subtle process, and those conditions that become apparent after retirement are not protected by the policy.
Wang Ye, a radiology technician at another Beijing hospital who has been in the radiology industry since 1986, said, "In fact, the scattering of radiation due to the failure of the machine is the most harmful to the human body." In response to this situation, the hospital will designate a person to maintain the X-ray machine, regular overhaul. Now there are many ways to take pictures, CT, MRI, angiography, large hospitals are used in Europe and the United States of large-scale equipment, requiring technicians to have a high level of English, so the photo sub is not without technical content of the work.
Wang Ye describes the nature of the radiology technician's work: the technician is a charging soldier on the battlefield, the technician and the doctor has no essential difference, just the technician's work object is the machine, the doctor is facing the patient.
Wang Ye said: "The technician is responsible for the operation, management and maintenance of various types of equipment to ensure the normal operation of the machine. And to do a good job of casting photos, to ensure the quality of imaging, and timely completion of film processing. At the same time to explain the scanning method to the patient, so that their cooperation to complete the examination."
It can be seen that the radiation injury is not as terrible as people think, but the staff of the radiology department is also subject to great occupational pressure, radiology department to find their own place in the department of hospitals, the road is still long.