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Usually when you hear about a tech making 100K+ a year, they usually are in cardiac sonography and have also specialized in vascular or PEDS. One of those specializations or both jack their hourly rates through the roof.

I think what livenlearn08 was trying to say is a NP is not a "doctor" in the traditional medical sense, i.e. physician. In that case, he/she would be correct; I know what you are saying and I agree with you 100% that they are both doctors from the degree aspect, just as one is with a D.Sc. or PhD. I wonder if by making the standard educational level for NP a doctorate will do more damage than good, discouraging many from the field. Remember when PT tried to make the doctorate their standard, it had negative results and they backed off to master's. PA's considered doing the same, but backed off on the idea.

I'm in the Rad program there, but i heard its 4-6 years.

If the pre-req's are the same (minus a bachelor's degree, but same science/gen ed courses) and the actual PA training is the exact same, who cares if they have an associates or masters? I've met plenty of incompetent fools with masters or higher and very competent clinicans with certificated (hosp. based) or associates that both had the same training. And in an associates they can change on a program to program basis the minimum to pass. If they want it 80%, they can make it 80%.

Sounds about right for radiation therapy. What a lot of people don't understand is that radiation is a drug just like morphine, pencilin, etc. It takes an MD's order to dispense it (i.e. an order for the exam), you must know the proper way to dispense it (how the exam is to be done), and the side effects (dangers of radiation). In radiation therapy doses of 3000 to 7000 RAD (Radiation Absorbed Dose)are given to the patient over a prescribed amount of time. For a comparison of how much that is, no one has ever lived after recieving 1000 RAD at one time. So you better believe radiation therapists are going to be paid a pretty penny; only problem is that is now a saturated area of radiology.

The time varies from Radiology practice to radiology practice, but the reason behind the hour to 2 hour wait is to give the contrast time to fill the small bowel and enter the cecum.