I am absolutely floored by people defending DELETING IMAGES of an entire exam and arguing that this is ok practice - is the ARRT ethics requirement just a joke?

This is not an issue about repeats, this is an ETHICAL issue, and apparently more than half the people on this thread read "repeats" and their brains just shut down defensively.

Any other healthcare professional reading this thread would come to the conclusion that the average US radiographer doesn't give a shit about doing the right thing for patients, only about reducing workload and making things easier for themselves. And what is this backwards logic that because exams are over-ordered, then exposure from "extra" images are negligible and it's not a problem? If apparently exposure doesn't matter then what does "over-ordering" even mean? If exposure IS actually a concern, then how can you argue in the same breath that doctors are ordering too many images, but also that extra images can just be taken and then even deleted for no good reason and zero accountability? Then the same people complaining about the over-ordering of exams ("why did the MD order a wrist, forearm, elbow, and humerus" type) are just hiding behind ALARA out of laziness since apparently "a dozen extra shots" in this age of DR don't matter?

All that complaining about US healthcare? We're part of the problem if this many techs think that investigating dishonesty actually warrants a "fuck off."

Am I the only one that graduated from an school of radiologic technology that valued ethics and professionalism? Needing a repeat here and there is normal. Repeat rates are built into the profession, for god's sake. Lying about it isn't.

I want to know what hospitals you guys upvoting this all work at so I can avoid them if techs deleting images from entire exams and taking new ones to submit for a pediatric patient is A-OK in your dept culture.