Dr. Rajiv Gupta, Mimi Leveque, Rebecca Barber, and Joe Faye loaded the mummy known as Padihershef into a CT scanner at Massachusetts General Hospital.
On a computer monitor in an adjoining room, images faded in and out like high-tech black-and-white scrawls. A small crowd hovered as Rajiv Gupta, a radiologist, began painstakingly clicking on the images and assembling them into a bigger, three-dimensional one: A bone, a foot, legs, at last a whole body. “Amazing,’’ someone said.
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If I'm not mistaken, this mummy has been gone over a few times. Someone with low cost insurance and cancer would probably be denied this exam unless they could pay.
I was going to make a comment similar to the one made by pvalen, so instead I'll ask, "Who pays for all of this and how much?" I doubt that any info they come up with will be of any benefit to the living. It will only add few lines to some academic information.
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This techie is just wondering if a year of 0625 triggered any warning messages or over-ride requests... IMO it should have... and if it will flush any bugs downstream... probably not, but you never know what assumptions are made about data.
As for payment, very likely he's paying at out-of-pocket rates, not Medicare rates.
The universe is an amazing place, I'm glad we can explore things like the illnesses of mummies and the colors of dinosaur feathers. Start focusing on everything -- and everyone -- only for utility, and sooner or later everything starts looking futile.
Not to mention, you never know when something that seems beautiful but useless -- say, number theory -- turns out to be useful.
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Thanks Jedi, you are right, but no matter who paid for it I think the money could be better spent