hmmm. maybe it's not easy, but you need to switch your perspective. mri machines (at least) are awesome things that are there to help. i'm not saying this as

hmmm. maybe it's not easy, but you need to switch your perspective. mri machines (at least) are awesome things that are there to help. i'm not saying this as some kind of outsider with no understanding - i spend a lot of time in them myself. and to me they have always been the magical robot monster that can help me. they see inside. they let the doctors understand. they're one of the good guys. really. you're in a fight. you want to win. you don't hate the guy that's giving you the good data. sorry if that doesn't help. i'm not trying to bash you. i'm just trying to show there's an alternative. i'm as scared as anyone when i open the envelope. but those machines have helped me a lot.... [also, as physics machines, they're pretty awesome. if you're an engineer or scientist and don't know how they work, read up on them. they have huge supercooled magnets that flip the nuclei of atoms. it's amazing stuff. despite the noise there's nothing moving - that's just the coils shifting as the fields / current change (and maybe the chug chug chug of a cooler / vacuum pump). you're basically lying inside a human sized speaker coil!]