Scotsman.com News - Scotland - CT scans rocks while patients wait

I like to think that there's a good explanation for this that we just don't know about, but The Scotsman has found that a hospital that routinely makes human patients wait for weeks for a CT brain scan somehow manages to make the scanner available on short notice for rock core analysis for oil companies. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary claims that the rock scans are done in off hours - but, on the other side of that, some folks are wondering why the NHS waiting list isn't being pared instead, if the machine is sitting there and the hospital can scurry up a radiographer without much apparent trouble.

Like I said, I'd like to think that the hospital is being intelligent about this...