>>>>>A couple of years ago, my liver enzymes shot through the roof. My doctor had me scheduled for a CAT scan the next day. Think that happens in places where they have socialized medicine?
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>>>Socialized health schemes have no CAT scanners or modern equipment so most likely they'd take a history, conduct an examination, consider the differential diagnosis... and tell you to cut down on the booze. ;-)
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>>Fifteen years ago I was sitting in a room with an illusion of a CAT scanner in our local hospital. And mind you, back then we were under Sloba's soft dictatorship and mostly under all kinds of sanctions.
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>I had a CAT scan once. Fortunately they didn't find any cats.
They did it the wrong way.
Unfortunately, the original site where I found the magnificent collection of cat scans in 1999 is lost somewhere in them intertubes, but the idea lives elsewhere:
http://thecatscan.tumblr.com/