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Digital mammography, networking, PACS, and Dante's Inferno
From: Applied Radiology
Date: 20060901
Author:Schmidt, Robert A
In girum inuis nocte, et consumimur igni.
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
In Dante's The Divine Comedy, the Devil replies with this palindrome when asked what goes on in Hell. It translates as. "At night we go down into the circle pit and we are consumed with lire." For radiologists today, work can be a bit like that: it can be difficult, at times, and you have to be prepared to get a little burnt. When I was a youngster. Ripley's Believe Ir Or Nor! listed this as the world's longest palindrome (reads the same forwards and backwards). How times have changed. With the advent of computers, ...
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