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As an X-ray technologist, positioning the patient is one of the most routine, yet critical aspects of your job. You may have to position up to fifty patients in the course of a given day. Though you may come close to knowing the steps for positioning a patient, almost without thinking, you should never let positioning procedures become mindless or automatic part of your job. Failure to position a patient correctly could cause harm to the patient. It could also involve the hospital and/or health care team in needless litigation. If you fail to position the patient correctly for a particular study, the radiologist could end up with an incomplete study and, consequently, inadequate or inaccurate information to formulate a valid diagnosis. The patient might be unnecessarily subject to further pain or discomfort.
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