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Topic: Going to the Dr. is AWESOME
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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 09-20-2004 03:56 AM
quote: Jennifer Pan You're the Dr.... Would I need an X- ray too? How about a "cat" scan?
A man went into his doctor's surgery complaining of stomach pains. The doctor thought it was food poisoning, but said that he needed to be sure. At that point he opened the door and a large black labrador entered the room. He sniffed at the patient, then poked with his paw a bit, then finally turned to the doctor and said 'woof!'. At that point, a long-haired ginger cat walked in. It jumped up onto the examination table, sniffed at the patient in various places, then turned to the doctor, said 'mieow!'; and then both animals left. 'Yes, it's food poisoning alright,' said the doctor. 'I thought so, but wasn't quite sure: so I had to do a lab test and a cat scan.'
On the subject of medical test equipment, I was told a horrible story at last year's AMIA conference about how an Australian radio station lost 30 years' worth of archive tapes. They rented storage space in the basement of a local hospital in which they kept around 50,000 reels of quarter-inch audiotape. The store was several miles from the radio station and, as the tapes weren't accessed frequently, it wasn't visited very often. One day the hospital installed a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner on the floor immediately above the vault. A few weeks later, one of the radio technicians came by to pick a few tapes; and on returning to the studio found them all to be blank. It seems that the electromagnetic fields from the MRI scanner had nuked the whole lot.
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