It's Positron Emission Tomography; They Don't X-Ray Your Cat
Loved this sign at Kaiser Permanente, which should have had the nuclear med acronym "PET" scan instead of "Pet" Scan, but in its incorrectness, gave me a momentary fond thought of my little crumb of a dog.
Well on one hand, we can feel sorry for the guy at the sign shop, if he gets email or reads blog comments, he's CERTAINLY UNSURE of HOW to USE CAPITAL LeTTers.
DrCos at September 17, 2011 5:52 AM
And yet the Lab tests are done by actual Labrador Retrievers!
BlogDog at September 17, 2011 6:25 AM
Not only that, but it looks like after-hours pediatrics and veterinary medicine are handled by the same people! Just another way Kaiser Permanente saves money and passes the savings on to you, the medical consumer.
Old RPM Daddy at September 17, 2011 6:32 AM
$20 bucks says that the sign-maker didn't speak English (yet he has a job here, making signs, in English).
dervish at September 17, 2011 8:36 AM
Amy Alkon
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2011/09/17/its_positive_em.html#comment-2486116">comment from dervish$25 bucks says the sign-maker is a product of LAUSD. (LA Unified Schools.)
Amy Alkon at September 17, 2011 8:39 AM
Alright, but I thought it was obvious...
A lady awoke one morning and discovered her dog was not moving. She called her vet who asked her to bring the dog in. After a brief examination, the vet pronounced the dog dead.
"Are you sure?", the woman asked. "He was in great shape yesterday. Isn't there anything else you can do?"
The vet thought for a moment and said, "There is one more thing we can do." He left the room for a moment and came back carrying a brown cat and a black Labrador. The cat sniffed the dog from head to toe and jumped down off the table.
The lab then sniffed the dog from head to toe and shook his head.
"Well, that confirms it." the vet announced. "Your dog is dead."
Satisfied that the vet had done everything he possibly could, the woman sighed, "How much do I owe you?"
"That will be $550." the vet replied.
"I don't believe it!" screamed the woman. "What did you do that cost that much?"
"Well", the vet replied, "it's $50 for the office visit and $500 for the cat scan and lab work."
DrCos at September 17, 2011 10:06 AM
One of the bright spots of the long series of veterinary tests I went through with my dearly departed cat was when she needed a CAT scan. Which they insisted on calling a CT scan, presumably to forestall my jokes - "so doc, did the results come back positive? Is she a cat?"
Ltw at September 17, 2011 11:10 AM
"Not only that, but it looks like after-hours pediatrics and veterinary medicine are handled by the same people!"
I do not have a problem with that.
Your doctor, after all, is only qualified to work on one species!
Radwaste at September 17, 2011 12:51 PM
Funny because my Kaiser hospital has it as "Pet" too.
BunnyGirl at September 17, 2011 2:19 PM
I get cat scans every morning. My cats are checking to make sure I'm going to feed them.
brian at September 17, 2011 9:12 PM
I'ze thinks youze guyz is bein' harsh. There are all sortsa corporate names for things that get turned into popular shorthand, and get modified a little in the process, often as a loss to the products' creators.
Thang
Crid [CridComment at gmail] at September 17, 2011 10:15 PM
I just can't help doing an old vaudeville joke here - "You know, noses *run* in our family"
Brian, I know exactly what you mean.
Ltw at September 18, 2011 6:42 AM
I'm stealing the cat scan/lab work joke.
dervish at September 18, 2011 12:37 PM
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