re insensitive technicians in article rrhi inn bq ceti cs unc edu john eyles jge cs unc edu writes friend s unpleasant experience uring ct scan deleted is there anything i can do about these pigs i d suggest writing a detailed letter about the incident to the hospital administrator specify the date and time if possible the names of the technicians send a copy to the clinician under whose care your friend was admitted i say this because though your friend has no argument with the doctor i have found that administrators sometimes ignore complaints until the patient becomes litigious clinicians may not have been informed of the complaint and are very surprised to find themselves named in a suit if there is no response within a week send a follow up letter attach a photocopy of the original letter do this weekly until you do get a response cat scans are non invasive but they can be very scary the scanner can be a bad place for the claustrophobic there was an interesting study in the bmj about years ago which found that around of people who had cat scans found it so unpleasant that they would never have another this compares with who said the same about a lumbar puncture don mackie his opinions
