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...fall down and break something, they will take an X-ray at the emergency room. Show up with belly pain or breathing trouble and the same kind of X-ray - what we call a plain film - will usually be done. The reason we like plain films so much is that they're fast, easy, cheap and effective - and they expose patients to very little radiation. So little, in fact, that it's extremely hard (some experts say impossible) to demonstrate statistically that the radiation from an X-ray increases your risk of cancer. There's no question that X-rays...
Thirty years back we used plain films to diagnose nearly everything - appendicitis, kidney stones, pneumonia, broken bones - and an X-ray alone was enough. We took care of them all just using plain films. Today, however, there's a good chance that after ordering up that plain film, the emergency doctor will send you down the hall for a second test - one that exposes you to many hundreds of times the radiation of a plain film: a CT scan. The radiation from a CT scan, or computed tomography, actually has been shown to cause cancer - quite...
...then it was over. Boy, was I happy to see that first grimace of pain. The plaster was hard, the X-ray was good and the child prodigy was back. He was still a little groggy from the Versed, but there's a world of difference between the sleepy-drunk effects of that drug (it's in the valium family) and the floating, hallucinating, who-am-I? mystical effects of ketamine. As Sasha returned to normal I tested the nerve to his hand. "Do you feel me touching your fingers now?" I asked...
...observers. “It’s very exciting—it always is—when you initially discover something you can’t explain. One should always see that as a challenge,” he said. According to Prestwich, the availability of high-quality x-ray telescopes made the discoveries of two such large, stellar black holes outside our galaxy in rapid succession possible...
...stretcher, and while Nick waxed on about sterilizing old wine bottles, I felt his new old hip pop back into place. The leg came out to length and was straight again. Everyone was relieved - everyone but Nick, who seemed a little annoyed that I was leaving to order another x-ray. He was just getting to the important part about the yeast...