Busy frantic night. Lotsa x-rays.
The CT machine was broke when I came in, but it was declared to be fixed shortly thereafter... I didn't have a CT to do until about 02:30. The patient was more than slightly inebriated, but she was mostly alert and cooperative. Except when she'd "forget"... and try to get off of the table.
The radiologist had fallen back to sleep after I'd called him. This is an infrequent happening, but it's always really frustrating for me when it does happen. The exam that I was doing necessitated the presence of the radiologist, so I waited... and waited... hoping that nothing had happened to him on the way to the hospital.
He finally arrived, and we got the exam done without problems with the machinery. He left, and I found that my next patient required a CT also, but of a simpler kind. I got the patient about half-way done when the machine failed, and I spent about 20 minutes trying to eke those last five needed exposures out of its innards, but to no avail.
We've got a brand-new CT scanner located in the Radiotherapy department, but I haven't been trained on it yet, so I had to call the girl on CT call... who lives out of town, and she hasn't had much training on it either. We finally got the exam done, almost two hours after it was ordered.
Sometimes stuff goes right, sometimes shit happens.
I had a coupla really grinchy patients for other things, too... made me forget all of the nice people that I x-rayed last night.
O'well, it's all over now, and I'm going to bed. Start the twelves tonight...