Tripler Medical Center Observation

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On October 5th, as we went to Tripler Army Medical Center, I was placed in the Imaging ward. I got to see all the different types of imaging machines such as Ct scan, MRI, Ultrasound, and Nuclear Medicine. I observed the nurses doing these with some patients. The first patient had to do a CT scan to see what was wrong with their breathing, they had dyspnea. When the nurses was finished looked over it, they sent the images to the doctors so they could say what was the problem. Another patient was doing an ultrasound to see her bladder because she had her period for a long time. The nurses helped her and told what was going on. The most interesting imaging was the Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). It was really scary at the same time but I found