For instance, why get an MRI when, in certain situations, an X ray would be just as good?
People in generally good health do not need to have an X-Ray before undergoing an outpatient surgery, as this appears to have no impact on the surgeries or recovery.
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S. hospitals develop a fee schedule for 20, 000 or more items from the cost of Tylenol tablets to the price of getting a basic chemistry panel to the cost of an x-ray or a CAT scan or an MRI and you can see the problem.
Beds, baths, and even an X-ray machine are among equipment reported stolen from hospitals across Wales.
"An X-ray taken immediately after John left the field did not show the injury, " added English.
It is not like an X-ray, but more like a very low-powered microwave oven.
If a deeper muscle is affected, Dr Markham uses an X-ray or scanner to guide him.
Days after being moved to the ward, an X-ray showed Hayley's right lung had collapsed.
Such an x-ray can show whether a huge stone is causing a dangerous blockage of urinary flow.
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After I did 9 years in the military, I worked as an X-ray tech at a trauma center.
Doctors at the local accident and emergency room stitched him up but never took an X-ray, he said.
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Napier was taken for an X-ray after he was struck in the penultimate over of the Kent innings.
It had a radiation detector, an X-ray crystallographer, and a complete weather station.
Mammography, which is an X-ray of the breast tissue, is a technology that has been available since the 1950s.
But an X-ray on Wednesday revealed it had been damaged again during his side's defeat in the fourth Test.
Jurrjens will go for an X-ray on Thursday morning, but says he's fine.
At Llanidloes, the LHB plans to cut 18 beds, close an X-ray unit, a birthing centre and outpatient services.
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He said that an x-ray conducted later "revealed the presence of a metallic object with wires attached to it".
Meanwhile, Wayne was taken to hospital where an X-ray revealed a broken metatarsal.
He went straight to hospital for an X-ray after being clipped by Yves Oehri in the build-up to England's opener.
Following an x-ray, she was taken into a side room by Dr Majeed to be shown how to use crutches.
Roberts suffered a foot injury against Nuneaton Borough on Easter Monday and he has had an X-ray on the injury.
An X-ray revealed broken ribs but a scan to check his spleen was not conducted and he died hours later.
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Abdulmutallab then passed through a walk-through metal detector and put his shoulder bag through an X-ray screening machine, Demuren said.
After he was taken to hospital by his parents on the same day, 5 October 2010, an X-ray revealed healing fractures.
"The archaic system of an X-ray machine and metal detector cannot pick up other potential threats posed by passengers, " Baum says.
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Midfielder Anderson will need an X-ray on Wednesday to determine his injury.
Belgium's third-choice keeper had an X-ray and the Belgium team's medical staff feel he will be fit after a few days' rest.
They need an x-ray machine and a refrigerator for the local clinic.
One uses "backscatter" technology to produce an X-ray image of a person.
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