18-May-2009, 09:15 PM
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Order of Kilopi
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Bowie, MD
Posts: 3,651
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Originally Posted by mugaliens
Nearly all x-rays taken these days are digital, for a number of reasons, the principle one being the fact they're far less expensive, per x-ray, than film. The second one is that they're loaded into the hospital's patient administration system, which allows any doctor seeing the patient to view the x-ray.
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And a third reason--saves scanning it before sending it to Bangalore so that an MD can do what a technician in the US would do, but cheaper.
Ok, you know you are in an SF future when it's cheaper to have someone on the other side of the world do it!
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