Not Totally Rad

Shedding invisible light on medical imaging

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

In this latest comic, XKCD hits it out of the park yet again.

If I weren't already an XKCD fanboy, I'd be in great danger of becoming one.

The Samurai Radiologist: The Samurai Radiologist has spent more than 20 years as a diagnostic radiologist, most of them professing at various university medical centers. The "samurai" part is a nod to the late, great John Belushi, whose samurai skits on Saturday Night Live featured a samurai with a day job in some other field, such as dry-cleaning or a delicatessen. The plot usually gave him some hilarious job-related excuse to use his sword. Since much of medical imaging (e.g. CT and MR) involves digital "cuts" through the body in various planes, I always hoped to someday see him portray a "samurai radiologist". I guess I'll just have to play that role myself.

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