Anna, Nuclear Medicine Technologist

Anna is the kind of person who likes to find the root cause of things, which makes her a natural fit for nuclear medicine. She's part of what her colleagues call “the unicorn department”: a tight-knit team with remarkably low turnover, working four-day weeks, and doing some of the most fascinating imaging in the field.

It just feels like we're friends and family that work together. You couldn't ask for a better thing.

What drew you to nuclear medicine and to Providence?

I was drawn to radiology because I'm an inquisitive person. I like to find the root cause of things and help people. As for Providence, I really liked that it's a nonprofit organization. Because of that, I could commit to a 10-year loan repayment program — after that, it's forgiven.

How would you explain nuclear medicine to someone who's never heard of it?

It’s not all that different from X-ray. But we're injecting X-rays instead of letting the cameras emit the X-rays. We're sort of doing inside-out imaging. We do everything from bone scans to heart scans to liver, renal, and cancer scans. We're specifically looking at the organ function, so our images look very different from other scans.

What keeps you here after a decade?

The environment is really something special. I love the people I work with, but we all like to enjoy our time off too. And that's honestly one of my other favorite things. I love that we work four tens and get a three-day weekend.

Discover our Diagnostic Imaging Careers

Are you ready for a new opportunity?


Show all Diagnostic Imaging jobs

Determination, energy,
and the drive to achieve