# 18
Image Gently/Image Wisely 9/15/13
Today I’d
like to tell you a little bit about two wonderful organizations; Image Gently
and Image Wisely. Image Gently was
created first, in 2007. In one sentence,
their goal is, “to change practice: to raise awareness of the opportunities to
lower radiation dose in the imaging of children”. A couple of years later it was realized that
this goal was also very important for all the rest of our patient’s who are not
pediatrics, so Image Wisely was created.
The four
groups of professionals that make up Image Gently and Wisely are: Imaging
Technologist’s, Imaging Physicians, Medical Physicists and Nuclear Medicine
Tech’s. As of today’s post, there are
currently 20, 831 members of Image Gently and 18,825 members of Image Wisely.
I joined
both organizations a few years ago as soon as I was introduced to them. Their entire goal is for the imaging
professional to give better patient care, and what is more important than that? At the end of this post I have attached a
copy of both the “pledges” that one would make if you decide to join. They are from one of the last slides I
present in my 6 and 8 hour talks. I can
guarantee you that NO ONE will EVER contact you or use your phone number or
email address. All they want is for you
to believe in the pledge and try your best to conduct your professional life
accordingly. Also the totals of the
members will increase, showing both the professionals and the patient’s that
there really are a lot of us that truly believe in great patient care.
One of the
really incredible things about the Image Gently site is the section they have
for parents. In it they can find well
written, non technical descriptions of the scarier exams children sometimes
have to go through. These include;
contrast enemas, UGI’s, VCUG’s, CT’s, interventional exams and Nuclear Medicine
exams.
I'll let the pledges speak for
themselves. If you agree with them, I
would love to see you join us. You can click
here to get to Image Gently and her to get to Image Wisely.
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