Patient
While I like Dr. Amagashi, his blond little echogram tech is another matter. I just returned from an echogram with her. This was my second one and I remember the first one 3 years ago with another technician as a normal experience with the tech treating me with consideration. This new tech not so much. The whole thing was one of the more uncomfortable exams I have gone through in recent years. What really got to me was the end of it, when I was covered in the conductor gel and I had to ask if she had something I could wipe it off with. Normally an ultrasound tech hands you some cloths to wipe down with, one usually does not have to ask. She replied with: "I have paper towels" and proceeded to hand me three of the hardest paper towels you can imagine. To say they were not absorbent would be an understatement. She took her time handing them to me as well, so the gel started drying on my skin. When she finally left the room I had to grab more from her little stack as well as some alcohol wipes to get the dried parts off my chest. So if you are going in for an echogram, be prepared to be treated without care and consideration.