High Five!

Good news...I'm going to the day shift.
Better news...I'll be the new Technical Supervisor at TIA starting on or around July 10.
I've been reading a few books on management and team-building ("The One-Minute Manager," "Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook"), listing areas of concern and importance, but mainly chompin' at the bit, waiting to roll up my sleeves.
I'll try to track my ups and downs on these pages, and learn along the way.
Get 'R Done

Another disease that will drive up our healthcare costs

TB seen in many aliens, study says - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - June 08, 2005

Healthcare for Everyone

OpinionJournal - Extra

Gauss Rifle

Fun with magnets and science:

Gauss Rifle

Definition of Radtech

Job Profile: Radiologic Technologists and Technicians - Radiology Job & Career Advice from Monster.com

The supervisor's position is opening up at my imaging center. Question is - can anybody really follow Chip at TIA? It will be like having to replace Pope JPII.

Magnets at work

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | How to float like a stone:

How to float like a stone


What goes up no longer has to come down. British scientists have developed an antigravity machine that can float heavy stones, coins and lumps of metal in mid-air. Based around a powerful magnet, the device levitates objects in a similar way to how a maglev train runs above its tracks.
The device exploits diamagnetism. Place non-magnetic objects inside a strong enough magnetic field and they are forced to act like weak magnets themselves. Generate a field that is stronger below and weaker above, and the resulting upward magnetic force cancels out gravity.

It won't be long, folks, until exeryday applications of this technology takes us into the Jetson age.

X-Rays Of Strange Items In Kids' Stomachs Amaze Doctors

Wow ...how'd they do that

More on MRI and $

toledoblade.com:

"Ohio has more than 250 MRI units, including 26 in Lucas County, and another is scheduled to come online today in partnership with Medical College of Ohio. Michigan has 155 MRI units. Canada has a total of 151 MRI units."

MRI, CT centers offer doctors way to profit on scans

MRI, CT centers offer doctors way to profit on scans

Curbing costs of medical scans / Insurers seek to rein in fast-growing use of pricey high-tech MRIs and CTs

Curbing costs of medical scans / Insurers seek to rein in fast-growing use of pricey high-tech MRIs and CTs
"'Imaging is a cash cow,' said John Donahue, chief executive officer of National Imaging Associates. "

Neuroeconomics - Your iguana is ruining your future

Haaretz - Israel News - Neuroeconomics / Your iguana is ruining your future

"That is the new science called neuroeconomics. It exploits cutting-edge medical magnetic resonance imaging technology allowing scientists to watch which parts of the brain are active when economic decisions are made. MRI technology is more commonly used to find problems in brain functioning, but it works just as well to investigate neuroeconomics."

While most economic decisions are made in the forebrain, there is also the "primordal" system at work deep inside the limbic system (among others). Imagine being able to exert some control over the way consumers decide and make purchases. Put this together with the soundless sound system and we are beyond science fiction.

Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Surgeon left in midst of operation

Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Surgeon left in midst of operation

Processed meat consumption results in 6700% increase in pancreatic cancer risk, says new research

Processed meat consumption results in 6700% increase in pancreatic cancer risk, says new research

According to this study, the perfect diet consists of fish, poultry, dairy products, and eggs.

And 86 the sodium nitrite altogether - it causes cancer.

Top Neurologist's Report on Terri Released

Top Neurologist's Report on Terri Released

Gotta match?

They waited 2 years to report it.

"16/4/2005 1:04:26 AM ( Source: Reuters)



Seattle man catches fire during surgery

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003.
The male patient, who was not identified, went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument.
The patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire, said Dr. Robert Caplan, medical quality director of Virginia Mason.
Caplan said fires are known to occur in operating rooms although they were extremely rare.
The two-year-old incident became publicly known after an anonymous letter sent to the media mentioned it as a sign of unsafe health care at the hospital, and said the patient burned to death.
Caplan strongly disputed its contents. 'That letter is factually incorrect,' he said."

hydrocele from hell

Ward Churchill at Anarchist Bookfair, March 26, 2005..................scroll down a few pictures.........warning

My Way News

My Way News

Canadian Health

CBC Toronto - Cut wait times or lose funding, hospitals told: "One area the study did not cover was wait times for MRI and CT scans.
The report's authors found that wait-time statistics for those procedures are not routinely collected."

Must be a software problem.

Dynamic contrast imaging

New Cancer Imaging Can Predict Treatment Results: "Here's how it works. A special contrast dye is injected into the patient before an MRI. If the tumor takes the dye well, that means there is good blood flow so chemotherapy and radiation will also penetrate well But if the tumor indicates poor blood flow, that's a sign it won't respond well to treatment."

Cheap hand-held MRI scanners may one day be a reality

Cheap hand-held MRI scanners may one day be a reality: "Today's MRI scanners typically cost $1 million. If atomic magnetometers came into use, the cost could one day be slashed to tens of thousands of dollars, the researchers claim. "
It's not science fiction anymore.