home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky sci.med:24273 ca.earthquakes:1611
- Newsgroups: sci.med,ca.earthquakes
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!casey
- From: casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen Creighton)
- Subject: Re: earthquakes during surgery
- Message-ID: <C18LCt.2Hq@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- References: <1993Jan21.232601.15723@kestrel.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 03:50:52 GMT
- Lines: 15
-
-
- I hate to turn myself in for this, but during one of those silly
- "prediction" times I had to have an MRI. I'm a big girl, so instead of
- inserting me into one of those little GE MRI tubes, I had to go to the
- UCSF medical building where there's an MRI unit that's built like a
- sideways toaster.
-
- So I got on the table and the MRI tech was trying to wedge me into the
- unit and all I could think of was that if there were an earthquake, here
- I was in this MRI unit in a *concrete* building on a hill in San Francisco.
- Which is to say I completely freaked out :-). Fortunately, it's not
- unusual for folks to freak out over having an MRI, so while the tech was
- disgusted, I finagled a referral to another MRI facility in Redwood City,
- on landfill :-), but it was a unit I didn't have to get completely into.
- Much better for the nerves :-).
-