More on the first week

It's an off day from school. I return to the Intro to Radiologic Technology class I have mostly finished. I've received one assignment: write a summary of an article from a medical imaging magazine. I chose an article about the new 64-slice Multi detector computed tomography system. It can acquire a large volume of images from the head to the upper femur in one data acquisition. This can save time in trauma situations and it reduces radiation exposure.

The subject of mammography came up. The instructor made the statement, “The female breast must be the most important part of the human anatomy.” This brought chuckles. He asked why we thought this might be so. One poor fellow said, “Because it provides food for future generations.”

Outright laughter erupted at this statement. We learned that it is a positive outcome of political lobbying in Washington DC. “What legislator in their right mind would vote against their key constituents by voting against women's health.”