I’m an X-Ray tech at a University hospital with Level 1 trauma. It’s a lot of physical work. A few miles a day of walking, pushing x-ray plates under patients, moving patients to and from the table. It’s also cognitive work, problem solving. Deciding what order to do exams in. Coming up with a way to get the image when the patient can’t move properly. Do we need extra images due to a fracture, or fewer images because the patient says only this part hurts, not the whole arm that was ordered?

I can say to everyone, any job you can do for 8 hours, you can do 50% longer. It’s surprising.