• salvaria@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 days ago

    Sent to a nurse to ask if that seems real. Apparently, it checks out.

    GENTLEMEN, PLEASE for your own sake, please be safe and use something built for that purpose or at least something with a flare that you can’t lose up there.

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      8 days ago

      While funny, this is not true.

      “Chest radiography remains the most commonly performed radiological exam in the world with industrialized countries reporting an average 238 erect-view chest X-ray images acquired per 1000 of population annually”.

      https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1361841521001717

      Depending on the country, there’s a chance of dental x-rays being even more frequent, but this varies greatly.

      Edit: Sorry I didn’t directly address the “1/3 of exams”. Even adding abdominal, hip, and pelvic x-rays, it’s still short of 10% of total. Source.

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        7 days ago

        I figured the “1/3” number to be hyperbole. The message isn’t that they took hard data and literally mean “1 in 3,” but rather that, “Male patients with items lost up their rectum is much more common than expected.”

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        I would assume the radiographer working in the ER sees a lot more foreign-body-up-the-butt cases than the one working in a cardiologists office.

        Also I’ve never had a specialist take my dental X-rays, it’s always the hygienist or dentist

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        7 days ago

        I have to assume that if you work in a hospital you’re not doing an awful lot of dental x-rays. Dentists do those.