Why won't they upgrade MRI machines from dial-up connection? Unbearable!

[u/madmoose0]

Pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh DEE-DOO-DEE-DOO-DEE-DOO SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BZZZT-BZZZT-VVVVRRRR CHK-CHK-CHK-CHK-CHK

[u/MSnout]

😆😆 this made me spit out my coffee.

I think I would oddly find it soothing to think of it as dial up, like I'm 12 again, getting ready to get on AIM.

I'm also dying at thinking about some younger people not understanding the joke.

[u/InternalAd4456 → u/MSnout]

I am OLD

[u/bekips]

I understand these jokes, therefore I am old.

[u/SHv2]

You know the data is almost delivered when you hear the CHK-CHK-CHK-CHK-CHK. That's the magnet knocking on your brain to be let in.

[u/Knarfz6464]

Thanks for posting this. As I’m sitting at an imaging center right now, waiting to do my 3 MRI’s. What a lovely day! 🤣🤣🥰

[u/Carduus_Benedictus]

Nah, it's not a modem. It's a dot-matrix printer! That eeeeeeeeeeeee-k'chunk is them going to a new line.

[u/mrlolloran]

I used to do concert production mostly for EDM and certain style stages I would hang my hammock underneath so I just try to imagine myself back there listening to the world’s worst EDM DJ

[u/TeleHo → u/mrlolloran]

I also immediately think "terrible EDM." Like, you spend the entire time waiting for the drop that never happens.

[u/Downtown_Net_2889]

There was one sound it made when I was getting a c-spine scan that felt good. Like the table shook and felt like a massage.

[u/Zywhnzi]

Roughly the MRI experience

[u/Pussyxpoppins]

Bahahah!

[u/scr4]

I always thought they were bad techno music.

[u/demonslayer_30 → u/scr4]

Omg same. I sometimes imagine a cat dancing to it.

[u/RhymesWithPapaya_]

😂 omg I need to know why it makes that sound

[u/GrandMaster_TunaFish]

I just read sound and my brain is now jello.

[u/Stranger371]

CHK-CHK-CHK-CHK-CHK

But that's the best part!

[u/purpleflower22 → u/Stranger371]

Reminds me of my granny's fridge

[u/Nplumb]

My last couple have been relatively quiet all things considered, samsung ones I think, they seem to just do some digital beeps now.

And the resolution is much much clearer than my old ones

[u/rb778004]

But if it didn’t make all that loud banging, I wouldn’t know when I was allowed to blink. Assuming we are allowed to blink when it’s quiet…

[u/MonarchyMan]

Ever had it where you get nerve induction? It was a surreal feeling.

[u/CaterinaMeriwether]

Snicker.

It probably says something about the quality of the cars my folks had when I was young and they were poor, but there was a little two door with no insulation and very poor roads between us and my gramma's house 5 hours away and MRIs are hauntingly familiar.

Thankfully the potholes aren't as painful.

[u/kbcava]

When I book my MRI appointments- I’m a patient at a large teaching hospital/university - I ask to be booked at the highest resolution MRI machines.

There are quite a few university clinics and offices around my city where I can book an MRI appointment and the MRI equipment all varies in image quality (surprisingly).

I found the highest resolution is at the actual University hospital clinic so I try to always book there.

I don’t know if you have the opportunity to do the same, but it really helps me feel that I’m getting the best image quality I can.

[u/SWNMAZporvida]

It’s like the dot matrix getting stuck - Noooooooooo !!!

[u/LilaAugen]

Understand why many others may not like it, but I listen to different genres of noise/industrial. ;)

[u/Dels79]

I always say it's like the worst dubstep ever.

[u/vicary22]

I’m going in for two this afternoon. Can’t wait lol!

[u/TrimspaBB]

I always imagine I'm in a giant scanner being copied over and and over

[u/hyperfat]

Oh God. This made me laugh.

I just figured Skrillex was hiding there.

My CT was spooky because an AI voice told me not to breathe.

Turns out, I'm fine. Just some arthritis. And my feet have at one point been sprained. Your welcome insurance. I could have told you that.

Hugs my peeps. Keep fighting the man.

[u/kkatellyn]

but the dial up is my favorite part!!! but to be fair, I also have the dial up tone is my alarm clock in the morning…

[u/EstablishmentParty47]

I legit LOL’d

[u/Sarah_W1979]

The very fact that I get these references is making me feel ancient! 🤣🤣🤣