There is an often repeated myth that technologists are just button pushers - a charge that is increasingly difficult to disprove with the advent of digital and the ease of imaging. Nevertheless, an educated technologist can make a difference.After an active 9-year-old girl fell in a waterpark, she complained of pain in and around her upper arm. The patient's mother reported that the results from the x-ray and magnetic resonance imaging examinations taken just after the accident were negative._ Seven days later, because of the patient's continued pain, her physician requested a chest radiograph to rule out a possible intrathoracic lesion.
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