Cat Fever

Cat fever is a new disease entity that has a broad clinical spectrum. The predominant symptom appears as a feverish impulse to own, operate, exploit, or write about what has been known as Computerized Axial Tomography (CAT) but has now been renamed Computed Tomography (CT).Cat fever has reached epidemic proportions and continues to spread among physicians, manufacturers, entrepreneurs, and regulatory agencies. A cursory review of any radiologic or neuroscience journal attests to the virulence of this new disease. Within the United States alone, the costs of this epidemic are staggering. Each machine costs between 400,000 and 600,000 dollars. In . . .