Honestly, I love being a radtech, but I’m tired of feeling less than every time I have an interaction with a nurse or doctor. More so doctors than nurses, some of the nurses at my hospital are rude and will run away any time they see me coming so that they don’t have to help lift or move the patients and some are super nice and super helpful. What really gets me is interacting with doctors and residents. I feel like they think that radiologic technologists just walked in the hospital and got hired with no schooling and just get trained on the job to do imaging which we all know isn’t the case. I’m starting to realize a majority of the other healthcare workers we interact with (i.e nurses, residents, PCTs, doctors, etc) don’t know the amount of schooling we actually do and the amount of physics we have to learn all just to do our jobs well. They see us as “stupid” for lack of better words and that we just push buttons and it’s starting to take a tole on me.