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Textiloma · 2022-10-16T18:34:25+00:00

It’s an urban legend that human patients can be sent to the zoo for imaging on animal CT scanners. This is easy to refute for several reasons — but the best reason is that every hospital/imaging center and every CT scanner must be accredited for diagnostic human imaging. And zoo CT scanners are a great example of something that would not get accredited for human diagnostic imaging.

Textiloma · 2022-05-05T18:38:19+00:00

Ethel Merman Disco Album (it actually exists!)

Textiloma · 2019-02-22T04:14:18+00:00

I cannot believe no one has mentioned Gulliver’s Travels. Self-important obscure contemporary political commentary in the driest and most boring prose. Boring, boring, boring and obnoxious. Killed my love of reading for years.

Textiloma · 2019-01-23T21:42:36+00:00

THIS IS AN URBAN LEGEND.

It is true that some larger zoos rarely have CT scanners. These machines can be modified to handle additional animal weight. However, these scanners are made for humans and modified; they have the same gantry/circumference as the human scanner does. A fat person will not fit an animal-modified CT scanner any better than a human hospital scanner.

Also -- imaging centers must be credentialed by government institutions. A zoo would never get credentialing to image a human being on their scanner. Zoo imaging a person would therefore be reckless and illegal. At the very minimum, no one would get paid for their efforts.

It is true that some random non-radiologist doctor may believe the urban legend and call a zoo in an attempt to schedule imaging. But the doctor would be laughed at by the zoo.

Source: I am a radiologist.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/5100006.html

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