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What Lego would look like in a CT scan

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 | By Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog

Have you ever wanted your Lego bricks to undergo a CT scan? Well, wonder no more. Someone did it. From the commentary : “This is a volume rendering based on the axial scan. Note that the density of the bricks is different for each color.”...

Weighing the Risk of CT Scans

Sunday, December 20, 2009 | By MomLogic

Could getting a CT scan bring you more harm than good? Dr. Nina Shapiro : An article in this week's Archives of Internal Medicine showed that getting a single CT (computed tomography) scan can tremendously increase the risk of cancer in the near and...

Join My Photostream, Doc

Friday, October 09, 2009 | By Epidemix

The most impressive tool for clinical decision-making presented at the Health 2.0 conference was a program that allowed docs to share medical images over the Internet, developed by MyPACS.net.  Any DICOM image (e.g. CT scan, MRI, etc) can be...

Most CT scans may be unnecessary

Tuesday, December 01, 2009 | By FierceHealthcare

More than half of patients who undergo abdominal/pelvic CT scans receive unnecessary imaging tests that put them at risk for radiation-induced cancer, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. ...

Medical Boards Interactive: "Your Patient Has Died."

Friday, August 10, 2007 | By KidneyNotes

I spoke with someone who recently took the medical boards (USMLE Step III, to be exact). There's a section which is interactive -- that is, it give you an actual case, sort of like an old style Infocom adventure game, and you must type in your responses...

Don’t Wait Until Mortality Stares You Down To Write A Will

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | By I've Paid For This Twice Already...

Yesterday I went to the hospital for a (scheduled) CT scan. Without getting mired in details, I’ve been having some unexplained abdominal pain as well as a few other intestinal symptoms, and my doctor decided to do a CT scan to look for both a...

Excess imaging tests expose patients to dangerous amounts of unnecessary radiation

Thursday, December 03, 2009 | By NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) A University of Wisconsin (UW) study has found that patients who receive computed tomography (CT) scans for various abdominal and pelvic conditions often receive a slew of additional scans that are unnecessary and that expose them to excess...

it's probably not funny

Tuesday, November 03, 2009 | By other things amanzi

we have a different sense of humour. we just do. what we find funny can be macabre to most people. it is probably part of our general desensitization or maybe it's a way of dealing with the things we see. you can't get emotionally involved with...

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