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...promise to keep whatever they learn about a patient to themselves. But it's hard to keep a secret if more than a couple of people are in on it; in a typical five-day stay at a teaching hospital, as many as 150 people--from nursing staff to X-ray technicians to billing clerks--have legitimate access to a single patient's records...
...screened for heart disease, people are subjected to an exercise stress test or injected with radioactive thallium before undergoing an X-ray. Now research shows that an ultrafast CAT-SCAN can do the job just as well. The scan takes speedy "stop motion" pictures of the heart that spot coronary artery-clogging deposits...
...case a real nuclear device ever is found, NEST's diagnostic and assessment teams have all kinds of equipment, such as portable X-ray machines, with which to peek under the bomb's wrapping. An instrument that looks like a Dustbuster is swept over the outside of the bomb to vacuum up any faint but telling fumes it might emit...
...recent Sunday morning, I went into UHS with a minor hand fracture. There was no X-ray technician in the building; there was no doctor who would examine an orthopedic patient. Both of these personnel had to be called in from their homes, both over a half hour away...
Tierney, in addition to the cut over his right eye, sustained seven to ten bruises all over his face and head. At Mount Auburn Hospital, Tierney received six stitches and underwent a head X-ray...