From Terry McStea
Your article on MRI
(This Week, 3 April, p 7)
reminded me of a story, probably untrue, related by a doctor friend.
MRI used to be known in hospitals as nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR.
Unfortunately, patients who arrived at the hospital asking for “an NMR” often
received a treatment that they were not expecting.
Hence the change to MRI.
Whitburn, Tyne and Wear
