#xrays

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I never know what to expect when I go to get a procedure done or get checked out in the ER. I have had uncomfortable to traumatic experiences especially with lab work and iv placement.

People don’t understand that while I might seem like a regular adult who can handle myself just fine, I also have fibromyalgia which makes everything so much more painful. You don’t have to squeeze my arm to death to palpate a vein. I can feel my veins just fine with light pressure. It’s not hard.

The lab nurse today did something no one has ever done when taking my labs. She pulled my t-shirt sleeve down so when she tied the band around my arm, it didn’t pull my skin. I almost cried. I’ve never been so grateful to a nurse before, and what she did was so simple.

My radiology intake was okay, but the rad tech was seriously amazing. She knew exactly what she was doing and was patient with me, acknowledging my pain and making notes in my chart about it. I was blessed today.

And not every day is like that. And I just need nurses to know, because usually it is unfortunately in my case, that it doesn’t hurt to be gentle or take your time. And it’s okay to joke and smile with the patient. We need that.

I know how much nurses are mistreated, including by patients. But I am the most grateful and graceful patient in all cases, even in cases when I’m being tortured. And dirty looks and sarcastic remarks really don’t help my health journey.

The Scottish doctor John Macintyre was born on October 2nd 1857.

Macintyre was born in High Street, Glasgow. His father was a tailor. His mother was a cousin of the missionary and explorer David Livingstone, my second post today with a connection to the explorer and missionary.

Macintyre originally trained as an electrical engineer and worked as an apprentice electrician before enrolling to the University of Glasgow in 1878. There he changed his field for medicine and graduated in 1882 with the Bachelor of Medicine degree. He then worked as a naval surgeon in London, Paris and Vienna, and returned to Glasgow to assume a position of a Surgeon for Diseases of the Throat at Anderson's College Dispensary. He later established a private practice specialising in the treatment of singers and actors.

As part of his interest in the larynx he was responsible for creating the first self-illuminated endoscope around 1894/5.

On 5th February 1896,only a year after the invention by German physisist Wilhelm Röntgen, J T Bottomley, Lord Blythswood and John Macintyre gave a presentation to the Philosophical Society of Glasgow on X-rays.

Mcintyre obtained the permission of the managers of Glasgow Royal Infirmary in March 1896 to set up an X-ray department, which was the first in the world. He was actively working on radiography and made the first demonstration of a renal stone, which was verified at surgery.

Macintyre showed the first X-ray cinematograph film ever taken of a frog's knee at the London Royal Society in 1897 and in 1902 published the first paper showing the use of X-rays for therapeutic purposes in an academic journal.

By this time, the number of referrals for X-rays was so large that the Infirmary was approached to build larger premises and the new electrical pavilion was opened in 1902.

Macintyre recognized early on the potential harm of exposure to X-rays and ensured that his staff and he were appropriately protected.

John Macintyre was president of the Röntgen Society -- the forerunner of the British Institute of Radiology -- from 1900 to 1901.

He died on 29th October 1928 in his home city of Glasgow.

Rosalind Franklin (UK, London, 1920 - 1958)

Photo 51, showing X-ray diffraction pattern of DNA On 6 May 1952, at King´s College London, Rosalind Franklin photographed her fifty-first X-ray diffraction pattern of deoxyribosenucleic acid, or DNA. Photograph 51, or Photo 51, revealed information about DNA´s three-dimensional structure by displaying the way a beam of X-rays scattered off a pure fiber of DNA. Franklin took Photo 51 after scientists confirmed that DNA contained genes.

The X-ray crystallographer and biophysicist provided much of the experimental evidence for the structure of DNA, in the form of Photo 51 (below), before switching her focus to viruses at Birkbeck College. She died of cancer at the age of 38.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/understanding-dna-five-key-scientists-who-unravelled-the-helix

https://www.royalmint.com/stories/collect/a-crucial-contribution-the-life-of-rosalind-franklin/