title: The challenge of special needs patients.
abstract: The trend toward mainstreaming the mentally retarded into society increases the contact that medical facilities and hospitals have with them. Accurate assessment of the patient's functioning ability and adaptation of methods and techniques are necessary for success in producing informative radiographs. The radiographer's goals are to perceive the mentally retarded as people with dignity and respect and to administer radiographic procedures with compassion and understanding.
authors.affiliation: School of Radiologic Technology, Methodist Hospitals of Memphis, Tenn.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011859:Radiography; D013679:Technology, Radiologic