Not Totally Rad

Shedding invisible light on medical imaging

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

The latest edition of Grand Rounds is now on display at the Medical Humanities Blog, featuring the latest round of keen medical blogging.

My contribution to the menu is A Call for Randomized Clinical Trials of Parachutes.

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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