While waiting at the doctor’s office, I overheard one of the officeworkers on the phone with a patient who evidently had some test or procedure scheduled.
“Don’t take any calcium supplements for 48 hours beforehand. And avoid zippers. Yes, avoid zippers”.
Can anyone think of any test or procedure, where zippers would be contraindicated?
Oh, I know an MRI, but usually for that you’re not wearing street clothes anyway - or if you would be, the caution would be “don’t wear any clothing containing any metal whatsoever”. Similarly an X-ray, you’d presumably need to get any impeding clothing out of the way for fear of messing up the results.
Feel free to speculate wildly and make stuff up, if there’s no real answer
I think Baracus got it right. No calcium supplements before the scan, and if your pants/skirt doesn’t have a zipper, you don’t have to pull them down/take it off. It’s the only test I know of where they look at your insides and you can leave all your clothes on.
Aha - that sounds like the most likely candidate. And as all the exam rooms have a paper stuck to the door saying “check your bones for osteoporosis now, ask me how” (or something like that :p) it would definitely be consistent.
Pbbth, it wasn’t clear from the conversation whether the zippers were just to be avoided on test-taking day or beforehand. Presumably (from Baracus’ link) just on the day of the test.
Hmph. I was hoping for some sort of medical test that prevented you from being able to use zippers for 48 hours. Something that caused massive penile swelling or a reverse magnetism that caused all metal to be forcibly flung across the room or something. Oh well, guess that medical test is still a fun game.
