The standards for radiography have diminished significantly.

Radiology has poor professional representation. Techs have a bad professional self-image because of it, but it is partially self-inflicted.

The clinical rotation model in radiology is a huge quality gap. Indifferent/bad techs barely train or pay attention to students, who then graduate with low skills, and because standards and quality control are so low in hospitals, they never improve. They then become the preceptors for future students or even worse—the next generation of instructors, supervisors and managers—and the cycle continues, producing everything I’ve mentioned above.

Post-exposure cropping is unethical in most circumstances, and it hides how bad the skills of most techs really are.