So I was going to add this clever thing to my post below about the softball game where I show you the x-rays of my knee and ankle (long story but there are injuries in both places). But when I popped in the CD, I found that the images were in a proprietary format that’s not readable on Macs anyway. Which got me thinking: why don’t they just use .tiff files? (For the uninitiated, .tiff is an uncompressed image format.) This seems to be a classic medical authority thing: sure, let the patient carry around his or her own x-rays but don’t let the patient look at them! That would apparently be too much.
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Today we got our forms in the mail for the permanent residency medical exams. I’ve never been so excited to go to a doctor in my life.