Mediators should be capable of:

• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

• Assuring that sterile or non sterile supplies such as contrast materials, catheters, films, chemicals, or other required equipment, are available and in working order or requisitioning materials.
• Collecting and maintaining records of patients examined, examinations performed, patient medical histories, views taken, or technical factors used.
• Completing quality controlling activities, monitoring equipment operation, and reporting malfunctioning equipment to supervisor.
• Performing general administrative tasks, such as answering phones, scheduling patient appointments, or pulling and filing films.
• Using beam restrictive devices and patient shielding techniques for minimizing radiation exposure to patient and staff.
• Positioning x ray equipment and adjusting controls to setting exposure factors, such as time and distance.
• Positioning patient on examining table and setting up and adjusting equipment for obtaining optimum view of specific body area as requested by physician.
• Determining patients’ x ray needs by reading requests or instructions from physicians.