From Peter Ceresole
I think I am quite pleased that the power of functional magnetic resonance
imagining is “not being squandered on helping stroke patients or people with epilepsy”
(Feedback, 30 January).
In these budget-limited times, MRI machines
are indeed too expensive to be squandered that way. Few institutions can afford
them, so they are made more or less by hand in small production runs. Rolls
Royces every one.
What we want is a Model T version, so cheap that go-ahead beauticians can set
up scanning businesses next door to the chip shop. In which case, the more
scanners L’Oreal use, the better for everybody—including, of course, me,
as I enter my old age and the stroking years.
Pile `em high, sell `em cheap, I say.
London
