On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 08:46:03 -0500, Frank
wrote:

On 12/16/2013 4:51 AM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
On 12/15/2013 5:49 PM, Frank wrote:
On 12/15/2013 5:58 PM, The Daring Dufas wrote:
Have you ever wondered what tools the guys who service MRI machines
with those giant magnets use? ^_^

http://intercon1978.com/hardy-mri-to...-3-t-tool-kit/

TDD

Cost of a few MRI's.

Since my wife had one this week your post prompted me to look up
prices and I found this interesting article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...280-in-france/


Reinforces what my lawyer sons tell me about some way overpaid
doctors they know. Lot of them make as much as major league ball
players

Also, half a century ago when I was studying chemistry, I would run
my own NMR's. Same as MRI except for name. Must have been
relatively weak magnet as I don't recall having to use any
precautions for metals I might have on like a watch.

The term "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance" though a more accurate description
of the process was too scary for the general public because the title
contained the word "Nuclear". So the Politically Correct thing to do was
to rename the process,"Magnetic Resonance Imaging" which is not as
scary. "The Dumbassification of America" started a long time ago. Darn,
I wish science as a required subject for a kid to graduate high school
was taught in a different way so they could understand the practical
concepts perhaps using what shows up in the news to make them understand
what's going on in the world around them. There are kids who are now
like I was at that age who live for learning anything about science,
medicine and technology. The kids who actually want to learn should be
nurtured and helped instead of hindered which is what happens to many of
them. I was so frustrated as a kid who wanted to learn and really wished
there was an Internet back then but it was science fiction at the time
so I had to haunt libraries and getting to a library at the college was
a real treat for me. Kids really need a class on "Life" and how to live
it. I remember home economics classes that were for the girls but one of
my male classmates took the class. They get out of school and have no
idea how to balance a checkbook, fill out their income tax forms or do
the simplest necessary things to live in society that adults do without
a second thought. Perhaps the class should be named, "Welcome to the
real world." ^_^

TDD



The term nuclear has nothing to do with radiation or radioactive decay
but refers to the precession of odd numbered atomic nuclei, like
hydrogen, in a magnetic field. I think the main reason the medical
people dropped the "nuclear" was that the procedure does not belong in
their nuclear medicine department that does have to do with radiation.

No, TDD is correct. The reason "Nuclear" was dropped was PC/PR.