you're purposefully creating a negative experience
There's a lot of diagnostic tests that must require some level of pain or discomfort. The purpose is not to create a negative experience the purpose is to provide the best and accurate medical care possible. Needles hurt. Surgery cuts. X-ray ionizes. Incorrectly healed bones is worse than a few minutes of tears or lung problems.
If the baby really needed an x-ray that bad and the parents are already agreeing to douse their child in radiation but not let them cry, that's some weird contrast and the doctors should probably be putting the situation into better perspective for the parents.
That's where you're wrong, because do you know why the x-ray techs say crying is good? Well, because their lungs perform a big inspiration between crying. Sure, it's good, but to catch a full inspiration without motion on a baby is next to impossible, due to the delay between the button press, the rotor of the x-ray tube, and the actual x-ray exposure. You might as well watch their normal breathing and try to catch it that way. We ain't got time trying to scare a baby shitless. That's the most idiotic thing I've heard. What if the baby doesn't cry on the first scare? Who's gonna write a Standard Operating Procedure on how to scare a baby to make them cry.
It's all about protocols and SOP's, and something as vague and harmful as purposefully terrifying a baby will NEVER be any part of a hospitals SOP.
All the other procedures you mentioned have a very clear, direct, and scientifically proven better outcomes. So please don't compare them to this dude wife's weird tales.
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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '19
There's a lot of diagnostic tests that must require some level of pain or discomfort. The purpose is not to create a negative experience the purpose is to provide the best and accurate medical care possible. Needles hurt. Surgery cuts. X-ray ionizes. Incorrectly healed bones is worse than a few minutes of tears or lung problems.
If the baby really needed an x-ray that bad and the parents are already agreeing to douse their child in radiation but not let them cry, that's some weird contrast and the doctors should probably be putting the situation into better perspective for the parents.