Today I was at Alamance Regional Medical Center learning about Radiology from Dr. Hoss. At the beginning of Work Experience, I was not super excited to do radiology, but after the first week at WakeMed I was excited for it. At WakeMed and Carolina Ear and Hearing we looked at many scans but I could not understand them for read them.
I followed Dr. Hoss, who is an interventional radiologist (IR). This means that he can perform procedures such as stents and fluid drainage. In the morning, he performed two minor procedures each lasting fifteen minutes and looked at scans the rest of the time until 12. At 12 he was apart of a medical conference to discuss patients that had difficult cancers. For example, some where in a difficult location or of a strange composition. Here the group of doctors all brainstormed different ways to treat the patient and then decided the best route. I really enjoyed getting to watch this. In the afternoon, he performed two more procedures and looked at scans for the rest of this day.
