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A letter in the New Scientist of 17 April 1999, signed by Terry McStea, Whitburn, Tyne and Wear:

Your article on MRI (This Week, 3 April, p 7) reminded me of a story, probably untrue, related by a doctor friend.

MRI used to be known in hospitals as nuclear magnetic resonance, or NMR.

Unfortunately, patients who arrived at the hospital asking for "an NMR" often received a treatment that they were not expecting.

Hence the change to MRI.

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