Assistants take on additional tasks, inch toward payment

January 1, 2009 Diagnostic Imaging. Vol. 31 No. 1 Assistants take on additional tasks, inch toward payment Radiologists need help but grapple with issues of who should decide what assistants can do, how they should be trained, and who accredits them BY YOMI WRONG Ms. Wrong is a former feature editor for Diagnostic Imaging. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- During 18 years as a radiologic technologist, Jeff Crowley acknowledged he sometimes thought, "Oh, I can do that," while assisting with procedures. But since becoming a radiology assistant, a job that allows him to perform certain procedures himself, Crowley's views have evolved.

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