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Episode 25 Rad Talk season 2 episode 4 1- 7 minutes: Jennifer Lindseys story of how she started her ultrasound business. 01:30: She is NOT a Sonographer, and she started her own ultrasound business. 05:00 - They teach Echo ultrasounds and have an entire ultrasound machine business division. 7 minutes - There are eight different business models people can create for ultrasound. 9 minutes: Mobile ultrasound is the business model many clients like to start with. 11- 14 minutes: Being set up with insurance as the provider 12 minutes: Medicare classifies it as an Independent diagnostic testing facility (IDTF). Mobile or standing facility. 17 minutes - Did you immediately buy the machines to start out? 19- 21 minutes: Don’t market to the physician practice that has tons of patients, look at the physicians who have a certain number of patients you could do all their exams once a week 22 minutes: $125 an hour per physician client a Sonographer can charge. $1,000 a day in revenue. 23 - 24 minutes: Jennifer's tip from a mishap when they first bought their brand new ultrasound machines they can look back and laugh at now. 26 - 29 minutes: Jennifer’s business partner can guide you where to purchase the ultrasound equipment from. 29 minutes: The ultrasound equipment is very mobile to the point it can even sometimes fit in a suitcase. 29:20- 32 minutes: Jennifer recommends ultrasound equipment to use. 34 - 37 minutes: You have the ultrasound expertise already, if you have the entrepreneurial spirit this is right up your ally. 37 - 39 minutes: find Sonographers with that entrepreneur spirit, and work for them 39 - 45 minutes: Legal side of the business can be very expensive and it can cost you if you don’t know. No worries, with Jennifer's program you have a roadmap 46 - 49 minutes: Radiologist vendors to read the exams or if your doing the exams for a specialist. 50 minutes: If your making $125 an hour as a business owner what all other expenses do you need to be paying for? 54 minutes: Fun fact about Indiana 56 - 57 minutes: Creating different protocols for different exams 57:52 - 01:00:00: 1st question 01:00:10- end of the show: 2nd question We want to thank Jennifer again for this great information. Stay tuned we will have her back on again in the future. She has some great information coming up with her free workshop she is offering so please sign up and tell her Rad Talk Dennis sent you. Here is the link to register for the free workshop: https://aic-ultrasound.com/start-your-biz-workshop And here are Jennifer’s social media links: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-aic/ https://www.instagram.com/advancedimaginginc/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBpSP6v--s4xXXx2tH362ng https://www.facebook.com/AdvancedImagingUltrasound/ You can Follow us on Rad_Talk_DG on TikTok, Youtube, Facebook, X, and wherever you get your podcasts. If you love all the wonderful free content we are giving out please be a friend, and tell a friend.

Welcome Back Rad Talk Nation Episode 26 with Malone healthcare I hope everyone had a happy Holidays, but were ready to get back to the grind of getting our listeners good quality information. Dennis goes more in depth with Malone Healthcare and gets to answer more of your money questions. 1- 9 minutes: Bill rate paid hourly. The agency is paying the traveler money before they are getting paid. 5- 7 minutes: turning in your time card when its due is super important for the travel company to bill the hospital correctly for your hours worked. 9 - 14 minutes: When can I negotiate my salary? 14 - 15: When you should decline a job? 16 - 19 minutes: :24 to 48 hour clock once an offer is made. 19 - 28 minutes: Going over bill rates with your recruiter. 29 - 32 minutes: Why don’t we ask the hospitals for more transparency with salary? 33 - 37 minutes: recruiting companies able to pay out more money short term, and being able to put yourself back in the black over time 38 - 50 minutes: Guaranteed hours information to find out 45 minutes: Never Volunteer to go home. 50 - end of the show: GSA information can be reverse engineered. 52- 54 minutes: How do I calculate my salary using the GSA? Follow Rad Talk on all our social media handles. Rad_Talk_DG

Rad Talk episode 24 Follow us on Instagram, Youtube, TikTok, and Facebook at Rad_Talk_DG. Thank you all for the support. Please continue to be a friend and tell a friend. Episode 4 with Malone Healthcare Start - 2:30: Who sets the bill rates that pay the traveler and everyone? 2:30 - 5:00: Bidding on jobs 5:30 - 6:00: Dennis bidding story. 6:00 - 8:00: Who are the people that can sign off on contracts for hospitals? 8:20 - 20:00: Define a bill rate and why agencies exist. 29:00: Go to google and type in GSA per diem rates 30:00: What is the minimum you should be paid? 20:00 - end of episode: What is included in a pay package?

Episode 23 Welcome to Episode 3 of this Malone Healthcare travel Series On this episode we did a lot of jumping around and also ended up having some technical issues with the episode. The content still is great, and information is super helpful. Beginning of episode - 21 minutes: Vendors and recruiting company being one. Why? 7 - 11 minutes: More money to the traveler working with smaller company because they have a lower overhead. 8:50: Your more of a number to a bigger company 10: Even if the owner of the recruiting company and vendor doesn’t make money on recruiting side they make money on vendor side. 11 - 21 minutes: Skill checklists is the travelers time to shine. Brag on yourself for this checklist. There are a lot of different skill checklists. 12:30: Do a skills checklist every year typically 14:30: Passing grades on skill checklists 17: Vivian app compares several travel jobs and pays 21:45 - 40 minutes: Healthcare License process 22:45 - 23:10 minutes: 4 states you need to have a state specific license in for sonography. 24:38 - minutes: State licenses seem to be money grabs 26:40 - different licenses for different healthcare jobs and nursing compact. 35:00: Licensing can be expensive but reimbursed for most states within reason of price. 38:00: Ask the travel company to pay for the yearly license 40 - 51 minutes: Hiring manager questions for interview are usually via phone 41:15: Scrub color answer may surprise you. Your welcome :) 44:50: Always get the managers name who is interviewing you and how to contact them. 49:00: Do you know when the interview is going to happen? 52:00 - end of episode: minutes: What does the job descriptions look like for the recruiter when they get them? Please like, follow, and share this great information.

Rad talk episode 22 Rad Talk welcomes back Malone Healthcare for epsiode 2 of the series. Recap of prior episode 21: Beginning - 5 minutes: If you click your interested in a job then travel companies will keep reaching out to you. 7 - 8 minutes: Find a recruiter that fits you. 9- 10 minutes: Have profiles ready when you want to apply for jobs. 11 - 32 minutes: What is a hero resume look like? 32 - 38 minutes: auto-submittals versus blind submittals 39 - 48 minutes: Totem pole of a travel healthcare company. Every job title you would want to know about as a traveler. 48 minutes: Do vendors take a percentage? 48.30 minutes: Do companies take the largest part of the salary or does the traveler? 50.40 minutes: Great quote by Dennis 24 minutes: Find good references 21 minutes: Chris got great feedback from a traveler hired. 51 minutes: Question of the day!! Side note: How many different beverages did Chris have throughout this episode?? :) Follow us on all social media at Rad_Talk_DG and wherever you get your podcasts at Rad Talk. Give our friends at Malone Healthcare a follow or if you are looking for a travel job tell them Rad Talk sent you.

Episode 21 Meet our esteemed guests, Jana Petty and Chris Pliatska, seasoned recruiters from Malone Healthcare. Join us in this captivating series of episodes as we delve into a comprehensive exploration of all things travel healthcare, unlocking the answers you've been seeking. Beginning - 1 minute: Dennis candidly discusses his frustration stemming from conflicting travel healthcare information, prompting our decision to feature Malone Healthcare on the podcast. 1 - 2 minutes: Who is Malone healthcare? 2 - 5 minutes: Why do so many agencies have the headquarters out of Omaha Nebraska? 5 - 7 Minutes: What separates Malone Healthcare from all the other companies? 7 - 10 minutes: Differences between working with large companies and smaller ones? 12- 15 minutes: Why did Malone decide to go from one industry and then jump into the travel business? 16 - 18 minutes: Medicare reimbursements continue to go down for important parts of medicine. 18 - 20 minutes: Dennis goes over very interesting life lesson story. 21 - 24 minutes: Chris and Jana's backgrounds 25 - 41 minutes: How do you start the travel healthcare process? 27 minutes- Chris drops a huge tip on when travelers are first applying to jobs. 30 minutes - Do you spruce up resumes? 41 - 45 minutes: Do you know if someone is really interested in traveling versus just trying to dip their toes in? 45 - 48 minutes: What kind of references do you need and how many? 48 - 54 minutes: Is it better to apply to jobs directly with the recruiter or on the website? 55 - End: Question of the Day!! Remember to like and follow us across all Social media @ Rad_Talk_DG and @Rad Talk Also if you wanna follow our friends at Malone Healthcare you can do so across all social media @ Malone Healthcare (https://www.instagram.com/malonehealthcare/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igshid=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA==) Be a friend, Tell a friend :)

Welcome to Episode 20! Beginning of the episode - 12 minutes: MRI story of what can happen when you bring something into the magnet that is metal. This story is a sad reminder that the magnet is always on, and to take MRI safety very seriously. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDfwxoigZZk&t=74s 12 - 26 minutes: Do doctors make too much money? Factor in the time and debts they accumulate, and what do you think? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/04/doctor-pay-shortage/ 26 - End of the show: Question of the day (It's a super juicy one today) Be a friend to us and tell a friend. Hit that follow button on social media (Youtube, TikTok, Twitter). Wow! 20 episodes deep and we are incredibly blessed to have been given the opportunity to do this. We truly appreciate all the support, and we are going to keep this train rolling, choo choo! We have been working on something for a couple weeks now and are super excited to be coming out with some great information for our travel healthcare audience. STAY TUNED :) :)

Episode 19 Start - 5 minutes: Celebrating awareness of each department or career in the hospital facility. Ultrasound awareness month, Radiology week, nurses week, nuclear medicine week and many more. 5 - 8 minutes: Two pros of sonography 8- 14 minutes: Two cons of sonography. 9:55 - 11 minutes: Dennis describes why most sonographer’s usually scan with one arm 14 - 23 minutes: one pro and con with sonographers having to interact with radiologists. 16:50 minutes: having the patient get into a certain position to better see a particular organ. 23 - 29 minutes: Two Pros and Two cons for being a Radiologist 29 - 35 minutes: Struggling to pass boards exams. How many times can you fail, and is there ever a time you just decide to move on? Instantaneous results for tests vs having to wait. 37 - 38 minutes: How we feel about having to re-certify and retake boards exams after 10 years or some period of time. 39 - end of show: Question of The Day!! Be a friend and tell a friend. You can find us on social media at Rad_Talk_DG. Follow Gage on the Tattooed Doc social media accounts where he talks about professional athlete injuries.

Episode 18 1- 6 minutes: Kaiser Permanente hospital healthcare is the largest strike in the country ever. Why do strikes happen? 75,000 employees going on strike. 6 - 12 minutes: Would either of us cross the line to help work the strike? 13 - 16 minutes: Misdirected anger with people getting angry at other people crossing the strike line versus getting mad at the organization. 16 - 19 minutes: Issues with working a strike with new staff. 20 - 22 minutes: Union representation versus working without 22 - 29 minutes: We give our opinion on a facebook group question in which someone is working the strike on a new job. 29 - 31 minutes: necessity is the mother of invention 31 - end of episode: Question of the day!!!! Remember to like and follow on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter (X), Youtube at Rad_Talk_DG Thanks for all the support. Be a friend, tell a friend.

Episode 17 (00:01) - Burnout in healthcare with the how and why it happens. Can you guess what has led to higher burnout than normal? (32:00) - Question of the day

Episode 16 (00:01) - AI vs Humans reading your radiology studies, who would you prefer? Who is at fault for AI errors? (18:00) - Aaron Rodgers tears his achilles. Gage and Dennis dive into how all the these athletes get diagnosed. (22:00) - We briefly talk about the difference between turf and grass playing fields. (27:00) - Gage explains Dr. Neal ElAttrache performed a procedure where he placed an internal brace called a "speed bridge" on Rodgers' left Achilles. (28:00) - Travis Hunter imaging for his injury cheap shot injury he suffered. (30:00) - end of the show: Question of the day. Follow us on Instagram, Twitter (X), TikTok, and Youtube at Rad_Talk_DG. Find us at Rad Talk anywhere you get your podcasts.

1 - 14 minutes: Credentials of ARRT Vs. ARDMS, RVT, ARDCS, RMSKS. What's the difference? 14 - 16 minutes: Magnet hospitals and ACR 18 - 33 minutes: Getting to learn about when Gage got his first tattoo and how many Dennis has or does not have. Tattoos in the work environment and how things have changed. 20 Minutes: Do you know the plural of hepatitis? 33 - en of the show: Using each social media to grow the podcast. Editing is one of the hardest things. Thanks for all the love and support from listeners and people leaving us comments and interacting with us. Please continue to pound that subscribe button and follow us on the social medias at Rad_Talk_DG or wherever you get your podcast at Rad Talk. If you enjoy seeing out beautiful faces feel free to find us on youtube on our Rad_Talk_DG channel and get ready for a future video from Gage where he will be having his thoughts on his radiologist reacts segment.

Episode 14! 1 - 8 minutes: Interesting MRI information you should know about MRI prior to having one! How much do you really know about MRI? Trying to understand just how strong the magnet is in the MRI machine compared to earth's gravitational pull. 6:40 - You get to see/hear Gage's reaction to a noise he wasn't ready for. :) 8 - 22 minutes: Gage goes full scale nerdy with us as he explains Quenching the magnet in MRI, and the various zones. 22 - 27 minutes: Issues with not doing proper prep prior to an exam and having to reschedule. How can we fully eliminate from patients not fully knowing what they were supposed to do prior to their exams appointment. 27 - 36 minutes: Having to take call to come in to do stat exams, and the effects it has on staffing, the patient, and the providers. 36 - 41 minutes: Looking at a patient with certain clinical symptoms and ordering an exam to diagnose the patient. The issue with this is if the provider knows that if they do diagnose this patient we can not treat them accordingly, so time can be wasted on exams when the patient could have been sent somewhere else and got the treatments they needed. 41 - 44 minutes: If you have kids ALWAYS know where the nearest pediatric hospital is!!!!! We can't say this loud enough because kids are people that are completely different than adults. 44 - end of the show: Question of the day Follow us on all social media at Rad_Talk_DG. If you want to watch the taping of any of these podcast episodes you can do so on youtube. Gage continues to put out hilarious memes and such. Also follow us anywhere you listen to your podcasts at Rad Talk. Thanks for following and supporting us. We really appreciate all the likes and comments you have given us. If you have any interest in any merch to support us, please reach out and know we will have also merch for you to rep. Episode 14 is a really big milestone episode for us personally and we put a lot of great info in this one. Until next time friends.

Rad Talk Episode 13 Beginning - 13 minutes: Traveler updates. How is the future of the travel market looking. Save up prior to getting into being a traveler. 13 - 39 minutes: Interacting with other healthcare workers. 16 minute is Dennis first unique interaction story. 19th minute Dennis tells the most unique travel story interaction he has had at a hospital. 40 - 49 minutes: Hustle culture. We all have the same 24 hours in a day to use. 49 - end of episode: Quick fire reactions to various questions.

Episode 12 Rad Talk where sports and medicine collide 1 - 14 minutes: Our email to ZdoggMD aka DocVader (Dr. Zubin Damania) and how it went getting advice from him. https://zdoggmd.com/ 14 - 17 minutes: Issues with the Rad Talk name coming up. 18 - 24 minutes: How old is too old to go to medical school? 24 - 32 minutes: Average people you see do something you wanna do, shows you how to do something. 32 - 40 minutes: Gage's experience being an attending for two months now. 40 - 42 minutes: Calling stat results and juggling doing exams. 43 - minutes: Gage's question of the day gets intense. Like Follow and Subscribe on all social media platforms Rad_Talk_DG. Watch this episode also on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@rad_talk_dg Please check out Gage's radiologist reacts youtube segment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loy-jscF7RM

Episode 11 1 - 4 minutes: Point of clarification from Gage. All technologists and sonographers matter and are important. 5 - 43 minutes: Gage deep dives into his first month as an attending using the "Grinding my gears" segment. Dennis starts us off with the first grind. 14 minutes: urgent vs emergent 25 minutes: in our opinion the most over diagnosed finding in ultrasound. 31 - minutes: Who calls the stat results the Rad or the sonographer? Which method is best for the patient? 43 - 52 minutes: Gage's trip to Dallas for a Post Malone concert 52 - end of show: Gage's favorite segment. Question of the day!! Follow us on social media: Rad_Talk_DG, or at Rad Talk.

Episode 10, Double Digits!! Thanks for all the support, on the pod and the social media Follow us on all social media at Rad_Talk_DG 1 - 13 minutes: Gage is officially an attending radiologist via a couple weeks ago!!! He talks about why he chose radiology versus another specialty of medicine. Find out if Gage is an introvert or an extrovert? He goes over the big benefits of radiology that made it the right fit for him, and maybe for someone else out there as well. Learn how close he was to thinking about going into pathology. 13 - 21 minutes: Why did Dennis choose to get into sonography versus other parts of radiology. Find out what Dennis Initially went to school for straight outta high school. 21 - 23 minutes : We briefly touch on about the longevity of working in radiology. Musculoskeletal issues that may happen doing sonography. Also issues being a radiologist just being sedentary and sitting while reading all day. 23 - 28 minutes: We answer if we would take the same career path again. Does the years of college and debt incurred weight on you as your going through school? 28 - 30 minutes: Which modality is the outlier of radiology aka red headed step child. 30 - 32 minutes: Traveling during covid, and traveling after covid. Dennis goes over why the pay is changing for travel jobs. The status of the market with travel jobs. 33 - 41 minutes: Other jobs are popping up that are not travel but people can fill specific job shifts that need filled. Could this be a future of medicine for full time people just looking for making quick money needs? Question of the episode!!! Gage's favorite part!! 42 - end of episode: What is the ideal podcast format we would want to have?

Episode 9 1- 5 minutes: Beginning your healthcare career after you graduate. In sonography when should you take an image and when not. Don't be afraid to ask for help!! 5- 8 minutes: What it was like when Dennis went through school with competency to how it has changed. Doing competencies at various programs for sonography. 9- 10 minutes: A great B mode scanning tip for kidneys and stones. (try it out if your a sonography with stones and you wont do it another way again). 10- 12: Different ways to get students scan time and make the sonographers comfortable. 13- 20: Tips for new sonographers enter into the workforce. Gage gives great tips new rads and sonographers. Treat every patient like the people you love. 22- 24: Having to put the sonographer impression papers into the patient's medical records. Pros and cons. 25- 30: We have all missed things on accident and made a mistake. Different skill levels make a difference in everything you do. Experience is key. 30- 36: The amount of exams we do in the duration of a year, whenever you do something over and over it creates more opportunity to miss something. 36- 42: Once you are a new grad the amount of growth happens in the first 5 years is huge. 42- till the end: One or two things in general that you have learned since starting the podcast

Episode 8 Follow us on all social media at RAD_TALK_DG Email us at Radtalkwithdg@gmail.com 1 - 11:30: Have a premade spiel when your messaging people on furnished finder, Airbnb, VRBO, Facebook. 11:30 - 20 minutes: Travel healthcare staying in your camper vs staying somewhere else. Big tip for first time camper buyers. Dennis traveled for 3 years in a camper so he offers tons of tips and tricks to help anyone thinking about doing this It's a campground not a trailer park. 26 - 27 minutes: Funny story of how using your credential might not be a good idea 27 - 34 minutes: going through an ultrasound exam from start to finish so you know what to expect. 35- 37 minutes: Getting a second opinion from another healthcare professional happens and it is common. 38 - 46 Thoughts on MyChart for patients that have issues when trying to read it themselves. 47- the end: What type of charity would each one of us have, if we could have a charity. (These charities are very close to both our hearts)

Episode 7 Welcome everyone to where medicine and sports collide. 1- 25 minutes we go over about the full body MRI scans. Our opinions on getting these and things you should think about prior to getting one yourself. 25- 49 minutes. We dive deep into our Miami Heat vs. Denver Nuggets picks.