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- From: rob_hawley@taligent.com (Rob Hawley)
- Subject: Re: earthquakes during surgery
- Message-ID: <rob_hawley-220193092523@rob-hawley.taligent.com>
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- References: <1993Jan21.232601.15723@kestrel.edu> <C18LCt.2Hq@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 17:26:52 GMT
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- In article <C18LCt.2Hq@well.sf.ca.us>, casey@well.sf.ca.us (Kathleen
- Creighton) wrote:
- >
- >
- > 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 :-).
-
- My wife is an MRI tech in Los Gatos. Her MRI unit is the place I would
- >prefer< to be in a large quake. Email me if you would like more info.
-