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

[hidetheelephants]

Huff said:

pingu393 said:

Anyone had an MRI scan?

Be grateful to Sir Peter Mansfield, who departed of this world yesterday. RIP.

It is absolutely one of the greater leaps mankind has achieved away from the mouth of the cave. The number of science disciplines the underlying techniques employed cross is huge, subtle, and - finally, hurrah - reduced to a turnkey production item. Utterly incredible.*

As an architect with a bit of a record in healthcare I've designed or re-organised several imaging departments with CT and MRI, either as retrofit of newer equipment, or new-build. There's always a range of technical challenges in coordination and overcoming them is so rewarding in its own way - there's always great programme pressure to get the things online, simply because these things then get hammered until needing to be replaced** - making possible difference in the lives of so very many people all the while, at every level of need and intervention in response to otherwise-impossible diagnoses.

Vale, Sir Peter.

• There's even an aftermarket in used/refurb units ('remapped' in ph parlance); and at least one charity -based organisation which will decommission 'old' units for free & remove, refurb - and get installed in 3rd world facilities. It's not just an amazing technology - it can be a reliable, long-lived one.

• pressure to replace is usually enhanced resolution/features/throughput, on a 10-15yr cycle; not 'mechanically knackered'. New uses and ways of using the data these things produce is always being uncovered.

Edited by Huff on Thursday 9th February 21:21

Good stuff; one of the more worthwhile uses of helium. MRI is notable as one of the more everyday examples of language being altered because of marketing; its sunday name is nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, because people are ignorant and irrationally frightened of the word nuclear it was dropped to avoid making getting put into a tube and exposed to a strong magnetic field more alarming than it already was.

[Morningside]

My partner had an MRI scan yesterday and we were trying to work out how much each scan costs the hospital

[anonymous-user]

MarshPhantom said:

Morningside said:

pingu393 said:

Anyone had an MRI scan?

Be grateful to Sir Peter Mansfield, who departed of this world yesterday. RIP.

Astonishing piece of technology. The more you read about it the more you begin to understand the amazing achievement it is.

Yes. Had one about a month ago.

Me too. Amazing technology with incredibly wonderful abilities.

[Vaud]

Morningside said:

My partner had an MRI scan yesterday and we were trying to work out how much each scan costs the hospital

Google the private hospital prices, and take a mid point of the range?

[vixen1700]

andym1603 said:

Don't think the lifestyle had anything to do with it. A female(48) from my work went to the doctor as she had been having headaches. After a scan they found tumours and gave her between 2 and 14 days, she lasted 4. Funeral is tomorrow.

That's just awful.

[E24man]

vixen1700 said:

andym1603 said:

Don't think the lifestyle had anything to do with it. A female(48) from my work went to the doctor as she had been having headaches. After a scan they found tumours and gave her between 2 and 14 days, she lasted 4. Funeral is tomorrow.

That's just awful.

Sadly not uncommon. As a Paramedic I recall taking a lady into A&E early on a Sunday morning with persistent un-relenting headaches. 24 hours later I was back at Hospital conducting her emergency transfer to LGI for emergency surgery upon discovery of a brain tumour. She didn't survive the day.

[Writhing]

Thats terrible. How on earth do you prepare yourself when you get told that you have 4 days/4 hours left?

Carpe diem.

[pingu393]

Writhing said:

Thats terrible. How on earth do you prepare yourself when you get told that you have 4 days/4 hours left?

Carpe diem.

Or seize the nurses

[TheLordJohn]

Writhing said:

Thats terrible. How on earth do you prepare yourself when you get told that you have 4 days/4 hours left?

Carpe diem.

Hire an XJ220 have a bit of a drive, spend it with my family (and importantly dogs) and as the time gets nearer and nearer, probably cry.
That's a true stter, that.

[GOG440]

Morningside said:

My partner had an MRI scan yesterday and we were trying to work out how much each scan costs the hospital

NHS or Private?

A few years ago (well roughly 10)I worked in a privately run centre doing mostly NHS work, we were charging the NHS about £90 a scan and we were making a profit on it at that price. Obviously cost will have gone up in the meantime but I would reckon it would be £150 max

[pingu393]

GOG440 said:

Morningside said:

My partner had an MRI scan yesterday and we were trying to work out how much each scan costs the hospital

NHS or Private?

A few years ago (well roughly 10)I worked in a privately run centre doing mostly NHS work, we were charging the NHS about £90 a scan and we were making a profit on it at that price. Obviously cost will have gone up in the meantime but I would reckon it would be £150 max

http://www.alliancemedical.co.uk/mri-offer-terms-a...

[Morningside]

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

[silverfoxcc]

Bit poignant today in the Express mag. The back page interview was with TPT

[Patch1875]

Al Jarreau died aged 76

[gareth_r]

Patch1875 said:

Al Jarreau died aged 76.

RIP Al.

I somehow missed the passing of Mary Tyler Moore and Buddy Greco.

And Butch Trucks. Bit of an unlucky band, the Allman Brothers. Duane Allman, Berry Oakley, Lamar Williams who replaced Oakley, and now Butch Trucks gone earlier than they should have. Not to mention the road manager who stabbed and killed a promoter, then died in a sky-diving accident.

[MarshPhantom]

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.

[HoHoHo]

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

[battered]

Writhing said:

Thats terrible. How on earth do you prepare yourself when you get told that you have 4 days/4 hours left?

Carpe diem.

Same as you prepare yourself if you have a fatal accident. You don't. Something strange happens psychologically when you come face to face with dire consequences and death. The wailing and gnashing of teeth that you might imagine actually subsides very quickly into an icy calm and a feeling of being thoroughly p*ssed off that you are in this situation. On the thankfully rare occasions that it has happened to me this is true, at least. It prompts comments of "oh you're so brave" but bravery doesn't enter into it. You are where you are, coping with a situation that has unfolded. Bravery is seeing the hazard coming and potentially putting yourself in harm's way anyway, not finding oneself in a plane crash and saying "ah well, nothing I can do now. That's a bd." and folding your arms. That's stoicism, which is a different thing.

[weeboot]

pingu393 said:

Anyone had an MRI scan?

I've sat and watched my daughter have a few. it's like listening to the origins of dubstep.

[Digger]

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!