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I had an MRI done of my right shoulder last evening. I was, for some reason, extremely anxious. Probably because in the TV show “House“, bad things always happen in the MRI or CAT scan. The lovely wife came with and it was very reassuring. Evening hours at the University of Rochester’s medical building in Brighton. Nice. Remodelling, like they are all over that system. Not so nice in that the music for the MRI was down. I got two golf tee shapped ear plugs and listened to a variety of loud pounding and slamming for twenty minutes. About five different sounds, two of which caused my insides to wiggle. Yep, like “giving birth to an alien” wiggle. I have to believe that improvements in this technology are on the way. The noise is something that … Read entire article »