Sometimes I think I have difficult patients. Then I saw this:
Yes, it is a gorilla in a CT scanner. The poor animal had
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001034.htm">mastoiditis;
the scan was used prior to surgery. The surgery was
successful. See The Big Picture at the Boston Globe
for the
href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/10/world_animal_day_2009.html">original,
from a series on World
Animal Day 2009.
(HT:
href="http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/9vbdl/gorilla_in_a_cat_scan_no_really_pic/">Reddit
user Micah)
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