First to pop off...............2017.

[battered]

Digger said:

When I last had an MRI the clinician told me they once had a patient who was a classical musician who asked if he could record the sounds when he was inside!

Charlotte Gainsbourg has a track called "IRM" (what the French call MRI) in one of her albums. It features sampled sound (iirc) and is certainly inspired by her time in an MRI scanner when she was injured in a skiing accident.

[MarshPhantom]

HoHoHo said:

MarshPhantom said:

Morningside said:

Thanks everyone. I didn't think MRI scans would be that cheap considering the technical requirements to keep them running.

My O/H was told £750 by the hospital.

I must have had 20 or more a few years ago in a single sitting when I was poorly, that machine saved my life

This being PH, I should point out what a shameful waste of taxpayer's money that was.

[Jim AK]

Patch1875 said:

Al Jarreau died aged 76

I missed that one.

Maybe he will sort the 'Trouble in Paradise'

[HoHoHo]

MarshPhantom said:

HoHoHo said:

MarshPhantom said:

Morningside said:

Thanks everyone. I didn't think MRI scans would be that cheap considering the technical requirements to keep them running.

My O/H was told £750 by the hospital.

I must have had 20 or more a few years ago in a single sitting when I was poorly, that machine saved my life

This being PH, I should point out what a shameful waste of taxpayer's money that was.

That's fair enough, my first wife thought much the same

[Eric Mc]

Sad to learn that popular singer/songwriter of the 1970s, Peter Skellern, died today aged 69.

[K12beano]

Eric Mc said:

Sad to learn that popular singer/songwriter of the 1970s, Peter Skellern, died today aged 69.

The young of today just won't understand!

Bit early given today's standards - so, yes, sad.....

[K12beano]

Nikolai Gedda - only announced a few days ago but an early loss in 2017! Good innings...

[HoHoHo]

K12beano said:

Eric Mc said:

Sad to learn that popular singer/songwriter of the 1970s, Peter Skellern, died today aged 69.

The young of today just won't understand!

Bit early given today's standards - so, yes, sad.....

Absolutely, some great memories are now sadly fading away

[anonymous-user]

HoHoHo said:

K12beano said:

Eric Mc said:

Sad to learn that popular singer/songwriter of the 1970s, Peter Skellern, died today aged 69.

The young of today just won't understand!

Bit early given today's standards - so, yes, sad.....

Absolutely, some great memories are now sadly fading away

Great songwriter and singer gone too soon!

[irocfan]

Dan Vickerman - Aussie rgby player..... 37! Seriously just 37

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/39019288

[hornetrider]

We just reading that. Poor bloke, leaves a wife and two children

[Simes205]

Clyde stubblefield - probably the most sampled musician in history. Yesterday RIP.


https://youtu.be/OOS18vi7WLc

[750turbo]

Brain Pern - Segway incident apparently...

[The Mad Monk]

HoHoHo said:

MarshPhantom said:

Morningside said:

Thanks everyone. I didn't think MRI scans would be that cheap considering the technical requirements to keep them running.

My O/H was told £750 by the hospital.

I must have had 20 or more a few years ago in a single sitting when I was poorly, that machine saved my life

Pedant Corner.

1. If the hospital own the scanner, then the cost wouldn't be £750. It depends upon a number of variables - the capital cost, how that capital cost was written down and so on. The actual cost of carrying out one more scan rather than one fewer is probably quite a small amount of money.

2. I am sure that your family, friends and PH posters are glad that you are still alive, but the scanner didn't "save your life". What it did do was provide information to the medical staff which enabled those staff members to make appropriate decisions to prolong your life. That machine clanking away in that room didn't save your life.

HTH.

[pingu393]

The Mad Monk said:

That machine clanking away in that room didn't save your life.

HTH.

Did the Panadol cure your headache, or was it you for self-diagnosing that a headache pill would cure your headache?

Without the MRI scanner, the doctors may not have been able to see the problem without invasive surgery (which is always dangerous).

[Jim AK]

pingu393 said:

Did the Panadol cure your headache, or was it you for self-diagnosing that a headache pill would cure your headache?

Without the MRI scanner, the doctors may not have been able to see the problem without invasive surgery (which is always dangerous).

[HoHoHo]

The Mad Monk said:

HoHoHo said:

MarshPhantom said:

Morningside said:

Thanks everyone. I didn't think MRI scans would be that cheap considering the technical requirements to keep them running.

My O/H was told £750 by the hospital.

I must have had 20 or more a few years ago in a single sitting when I was poorly, that machine saved my life

Pedant Corner.

1. If the hospital own the scanner, then the cost wouldn't be £750. It depends upon a number of variables - the capital cost, how that capital cost was written down and so on. The actual cost of carrying out one more scan rather than one fewer is probably quite a small amount of money.

2. I am sure that your family, friends and PH posters are glad that you are still alive, but the scanner didn't "save your life". What it did do was provide information to the medical staff which enabled those staff members to make appropriate decisions to prolong your life. That machine clanking away in that room didn't save your life.

HTH.

I had a 10cm x 3cm cyst on the outside of my colon that had burst and I was being poisoned to death.

They used the machine to identify exactly where the cyst was and inserted a needle in my stomach followed by fine tubes to try and lance it. I was being pushed in and out of the machine and the doctor wa then able to examine the image produced to manoeuvre the needle to ththe exact point to try and drain the puss.

I must have been in and out 20 times over a 90 minute period and the machine and its pictures helped save my life.

HTH.

[mybrainhurts]

PowerslideSWE said:

mybrainhurts said:

Yes he is. Old duffer's pushing the global warming myth.

Yeah, what could he possibly know about global warming, he has only been documenting nature and wildlife for the last 60 fking years...

You've lost me there. How on earth does that qualify Attenborough to know anything about the (duff) science? Clearly, he doesn't, he's just blindly following the disciples of doom. He's been studying sheep too closely. Probably.

PowerslideSWE said:

It's not a myth, it's fact. What causes it is debatable.. OT, sry...

I assumed you'd know that's what I meant, so I elected to avoid being wordy.

[The Mad Monk]

HoHoHo said:

The Mad Monk said:

HoHoHo said:

MarshPhantom said:

Morningside said:

Thanks everyone. I didn't think MRI scans would be that cheap considering the technical requirements to keep them running.

My O/H was told £750 by the hospital.

I must have had 20 or more a few years ago in a single sitting when I was poorly, that machine saved my life

Pedant Corner.

1. If the hospital own the scanner, then the cost wouldn't be £750. It depends upon a number of variables - the capital cost, how that capital cost was written down and so on. The actual cost of carrying out one more scan rather than one fewer is probably quite a small amount of money.

2. I am sure that your family, friends and PH posters are glad that you are still alive, but the scanner didn't "save your life". What it did do was provide information to the medical staff which enabled those staff members to make appropriate decisions to prolong your life. That machine clanking away in that room didn't save your life.

HTH.

I had a 10cm x 3cm cyst on the outside of my colon that had burst and I was being poisoned to death.

They used the machine to identify exactly where the cyst was and inserted a needle in my stomach followed by fine tubes to try and lance it. I was being pushed in and out of the machine and the doctor wa then able to examine the image produced to manoeuvre the needle to ththe exact point to try and drain the puss.

I must have been in and out 20 times over a 90 minute period and the machine and its pictures helped save my life.

HTH.

Yes, quite so and I am glad that you are still with us.

The machine was another diagnostic tool to give the medical team the information that helped them to save your life.

I did write 'Pedant Corner'.

[TheLordJohn]

The Mad Monk said:

Yes, quite so and I am glad that you are still with us.

The machine was another diagnostic tool to give the medical team the information that helped them to save your life.

I did write 'Pedant Corner'.

I rather think this is what you meant...