Bernice Oxley is our guest this week for a conversation about the many ways we use technology to look inside bodies so that we can diagnose, treat and monitor medical conditions. This includes X-rays, CT scans, MRIs, mammograms and ultrasounds.

Bernice is a regional director for Medical Imaging at Fraser Health. She takes us behind the scenes of medical imaging, sharing how we performed 13,000 more CT scans and MRIs last year than the year before, what happens during imaging, how to prepare, and how to turn mammograms into memorable experiences.

Chapters

What is medical imaging?

Wait times

Why you were able to get a CT scan at 3:00 a.m.

What happens during a scan or X-ray and how to prepare

New technologies

Making mammograms memorable

Guest bio

Bernice has been a technologist for 38 years and is the director of Medical Imaging for our Fraser East sites. She is passionate about medical imaging, especially in introducing it to students and focusing on recruitment.

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This episode of The Heart of It was recorded on the traditional, ancestral and unceded shared territories of the q̓ ic̓əy̓ (Katzie), q̓ʷɑ:n̓ƛ̓ən̓ (Kwantlen), kʷikʷəƛ̓ əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt and Semiahmoo First Nations, treaty lands of the sc̓əwaθən məsteyəxʷ (Tsawwassen) First Nation, and on the home of the Surrey-Delta Métis Association.

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