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Canadian native here. I have a Band which is part of a larger Nation. My specific Nation (Nlaka'pamux) is a grouping of 16-17 independent Bands.

I work in a medical field with ionizing radiation, which can cause miscarriage and fetal abnormalities in early trimester pregnancies, so I am particularly concerned with FtM who have not yet had bottom surgery as pregnancy can still occur. There has been a lot of discussion lately in the media about the proper way to address people in the trans community. I personally have no concerns with people being addressed by their chosen prefix, professionally however, I need to know if there's any chance of pregnancy. I know every health care system is different, but are there any milestones that go along with your transition that allow you to legally change your gender on your medical documents? My community is rather small, so the only real way to differentiate transitioning is there is a change in the patient's preferred name.

And with all the estrogen you're taking, is there a possible increase in your risk of developing breast cancer? Is that something you were warned to be mindful of?

Med Rad tech here.

I've heard chatter about changes that would allow nurses to order, perform and report their own imaging work. What do you feel of this suggestion? I myself am very concerned about this as I completed years of schooling in order to take appropriate diagnostic images while you've undergone even further education to ensure those images are appropriately interpreted. I don't feel these jobs could be accurately done by an RN.

While it's probably less of a concern with high level IR procedures, what do you think about the possibility of rads and their image reading being replaced with computers? We already see this being done on a limited scale in mammography with CAD being used as a "second read", but it hasn't seen much penetration beyond that.

Beyond poor quality imaging (low quality images, sloppy pos'n), what is something that drives you nuts about us imaging techs?

Least favourite type of case to do/read? I've heard many complaints about the GI tract (swallows and enemas) from my doctors here. And then bitching about bone age studies.

My friend's daughter has this condition. It was an incidental finding on an MRI. She has had a surgery to remove the septum between the two cervixes I think?

Anyways, she, like many ppl who have this condition, has only one kidney (it's a really big kidney). Do you also have just the one kidney? Or any other anomalous offsets to make room for the extra uterus?

Routinely at my hospital, the anes orders a pre-op cxr for surgery. But then I had a newly graduated locum anes say that generally those don't affect the outcome at all. Are the drs ordering these cxrs being old school and/or covering their ass?

Ever had any malignant hyperthermia? How did that go?