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Case 6

Cindy is a second year radiography student. It is her first day working in the A&E department. When she arrived at the radiology department, it was already crowded with many patients. As the queue was so long, her mentor told her to observe first.

After observing for a while, Cindy started to realize that the DR system was used instead of the conventional system, so as to facilitate the workflow. However, due to the rapid workflow of the department, anyone who needed to get changed had to go to the changing room next to the radiology department.

As it took time to get changed, the senior radiographer decided to speed things up by scheduling a 56-year old male for chest exam in between other patients' exams, as no changing was needed. After the exam, the man was adjusting his belt while a junior radiographer had already asked a 32-year old female patient, who was to undergo a right hip exam, to enter the room. The work flow was smooth, and after checking her LMP, the female patient lay down on the couch and got into position. However, the old man was still in view, which embarrassed the young lady. Eventually the exam was finished. Unfortunately, when the senior radiographer was checking the films before transmitting them to the radiologist by the DR system, he found that the left hip had been mistakenly imaged instead of the right one, which meant the exam needed to be repeated. The young lady was annoyed about this, but then she was told by the radiographer that this was due to her motion when undertaking the examination and this blurred the image. The exam was finally finished, and Cindy's mentor told her not to worry if she made any mistakes, as all the repeated films could be deleted by simply clicking the icon on the DR system.