Not Totally Rad

Shedding invisible light on medical imaging

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

The latest issue of Grand Rounds is hosted this week by Paul Levy, at Running a Hospital.

This week's episode is devoted to "When things go awry". My contribution -- "Getting the Finger From a Patient" -- is about 4th from the top.

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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