="midlifemom" they didn't care about the hooks in the back.
BrownBagger wrote:[quote="midlifemom" they didn't care about the hooks in the back.
BrownBagger wrote:I've been scanned at just about every MSKCC facility, including a couple independent shops that were handling Sloan's overflow. The protocol for patient attire varies considerably, depending on where you go. Same institution; very different customs.
At East 53rd St., it's Maximum Humiliation Time. You're expected to don a hospital gown, but leave your street shoes and socks on (of course). Then you have to sit in a public waiting room looking like that waiting for your scan. You hang your clothes on a hanger and give them to a coat check attendant, who reminds you to remember your number, and may or may not be there when you return to pick up your stuff.
At the main hospital, things are a bit more relaxed, but they still make you change into a gown. No shoe/sock requirement. Unlike 53rd St., you're given a locker for your stuff.
I try to get scanned at Basking Ridge, NJ, mostly because it's closer cheaper and easier to get to than Manhattan. At the 'Ridge, it's walk in off the street, leave your keys and phone on the counter in the scanning chamber, pull down your pants and everybody's good to go. Spin that Wheel of Fortune, Vanna!
The satellite scanning joints, like the one on 55th St., are also pretty casual, as I recall. Everyone makes you drink the juice, but there's a sub place called Riverside or some such (uptown and on the river), where you get to choose the flavor.
So, MSKCC: Wazzupwitdat?
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