Usually, if you combine two things you’re ambivalent about, you’re left feeling lukewarm at best.
How is it, then, when you combine medicine with technology, I’m fascinated? I had an MRI today, and walked away with the CD of images. With most of them, for all I can decipher, I may as well be looking at photos taken by Curiosity of the surface of Mars. But others are amazingly clear. Check it out…
![Knee WTF is wrong? I have no idea. But it sure looks cool!](http://www.marianisima.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/knee2.jpg)
WTF is wrong? No idea. But it sure looks cool!
It takes scores of exceptionally smart people working together to figure out how to use magnets to get a picture of the inside of your body — a picture that you can then study on your computer screen. It makes my brain hurt a little to think about it. But not as much as it hurt when I learned that my neighbor helped invent a camera that can go into your heart to take pictures. Whoa.
(Meanwhile, running’s on hold. Maybe forever.)