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in the US, many MRI places are 9-6 A nit, but is this actually true? I've had 7 MRI's (5 health-related, 2 research-related) and only one of them was during bu
by Anechoic 15y ago
in the US, many MRI places are 9-6
A nit, but is this actually true? I've had 7 MRI's (5 health-related, 2 research-related) and only one of them was during business hours. I've had MRIs done at 9pm, 11pm, 1am, 4:30am, 6am etc.
- yummyfajitas 15y agoI'll take your word for it, you've had more MRI's than me. But I've always had to take half a day off from work to get an MRI done. I imagine it would also be different for a hospital MRI (which needs to be available for emergencies) and outpatient MRI centers (which is where I've always gone).
- rdl 15y agoOther "special" things about MRI: 1) The trucks -- a lot of times MRI trucks are driven around to various hospitals, and scheduled in advance, for non-emergent studies. These obviously get scheduled during "working hours", and then the emergent off-hours MR studies are done by transporting the patient to a higher level facility and thus might get shot whenever. 2) The whole "doctor owned imaging center" scam or "perverse economic incentive", where doctors own imaging centers and then refer a lot of patients to them, increasing the use of the technology for basically no need. These are easy to schedule during working hours, too.