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Laffy Kat

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8. Part of my job at work is to make sure patients change clothes before their tests.
Tue Oct 18, 2016, 04:44 PM
Oct 2016

It's in radiology. I take patients to their dressing rooms and explain that MRIs work with magnetic energy and radio waves, blah, blah, blah, so they need to get undressed, especially remove metal jewelry, piercings, etc.; put on these specific gowns, etc. I tell patients they can leave their underpants on. I'm not exaggerating, at least three out of ten patients inform me they are commando. Men, women, it makes no difference. Frankly, I don't care, no judgment from me, but you'd think they'd wear undies for an imaging study, no? I have also learned that people have piercings in very strange places with no idea how to remove them. They get rescheduled.

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