I know a lot of people might hate on this, but I'm a mobile x-ray tech (for the time being, I'm in MRI school right now) and some of the orders we get are ridiculous. Most of the ridiculous orders are for falls and the MD or NP is just covering their ass (I get it). Almost 100% of the time they haven't even seen the patient. They are relying on nurses that (in my case) haven't even seen the pt and are going off what the nurse before them told them. Half the time they aren't even aware that the pt had an order for x-ray. Today I got an order for, and was in our system as, bilateral shoulders and hips. I show up and the order was literally for everything BUT a skull, chest, and abdomen. The companies rule that I work for is: do whatever the actual order is, even if it's wrong in our system, fair enough.... I get the order and it's.... Bilateral everything, literally... everything... Ribs, shoulder, clavicle, scapula, humerus, elbow, forearm, wrist, hand, ...