I was working Urgent Care one weekend. It was almost the end of the shift, and being a Sunday, most of us were looking forward to going home to enjoy the rest of the day. Suddenly, we were informed that a family of 5 were checking in! It appeared that they were all at a birthday party and had eaten cake. When Mom was washing the knife they had used, she noticed a piece of it was missing. Of course, everyone's concern was that perhaps someone had ended up eating a piece of cake with a piece of knife in it. There were also several people checked in on the adult's side of urgent care (I was working on the Peds side).
Usually, we would get x-rays to look for the 'foreign body'. Fortunately, an astute x-ray technician (who also probably wanted to go home) asked if we could x-ray the cake instead. As it tunred out, the family had brought the knife (what was left of it) and the cake. Here is what we saw:
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| tray of cake -- can you see the knife piece? |
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| How about now? |
The piece missed what was missing from the knife. Not only was everyone relieved, but this x-ray technician saved several people including children from having to be exposed to the radiation of x-rays.
There was only one problem: how do you record the images in the radiology software system? To whom should the bill go to?
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