The Horrors of Vomit

The inside of our bodies after all is a weird and bumpy landscape, even in the healthiest condition. A neurologist once said that he and his colleagues have an acronym to describe what happens when a patient who does not need an MRI, nevertheless gets an MRI. We call it vomit, he told me, victims of medical imagery technology. Often a patient and a doctor will overreact to whatever appears on the MRI and they will begin a cascade of medical interventions and investigations which can lead to new conditions.