mysticalfliprt

Who cares who gets paid more than people who are self absorbed ill mannered self diluted jerks. Nursing and the radiological field are two separate entities that cannot be compared but one should respect each other for the duties that they do especially the health professionals who take their work seriously within their hearts and care what is most important in their career, the patient! Nurses are not feces cleaners and the technologists are not button pushers only period! Anyone who brags about their salary or put anyone down because of their profession should be ignored especially in this economy we live in now. If you are able to find a job out of school and you love it, good for you with all sincerity because it is a rarity to find nowadays and I am one of the lucky ones to find it. In the end, be happy what you do and if you don't, there is something worst that could have happened to you. Have a nice day.

you nurses crack me up. basically most of you are saying you believe technologists in the radiology field don't deserve to get salaries like nurses do and think all we do is just take pictures. no its okay ive heard it before from nurses and they are my great family and exes. im a technologist in the field and quite young believe it or not. if you still don't believe what i will say, thats okay and that is fine. my sister who is a nurse for ten years in Montefiore Hospital in NY would always say behind my back, "Oh please, he won't ever earn anything in radiology." I still remember those kind words. I love nurses don't get me wrong. You guys work hard and deserve every cent you get especially the ones who are efficient and love what they do! You are the rock of the medical field but you are not the only ones in the field also. I remember my physician's wife was accessing my BP and had the nerve to say, "I don't understand why MRI techs earn $35 per hour as much as us." Back then, I wasn't as knowledgeable as I am right now and I would have said, "Well because we deserve it and we have to know the abstract MR physics in order to get a diagnostic image than just pressing a "button", pathology, and hell we can kill a patient if we do not know what we are doing!" We do have to communicate still in nuclear medicine technology, radiation therapy, radiography, IR, and etc. I think if I told you how much I earn in 37 hrs, your jaw will drop and this is my first job PET/CT job with jaw dropping bennies. Why we earn the way we do? Simple, radiation also. Ciao. BTW, I solely believe nurses should get more than they should but we should also but really the respect will do.