"911, What's your emergency?" "Uh, yes, I've been locked inside a medical clinic, and I would like to go home."

OK, well, I was already mildly horrified while reading an article at CNN.com today about a woman who was getting a CT scan, and was then left inside the machine. Yeah. The technician forgot about her and went home. That's bad. That's bad enough. But then I read the following quote from one of the doctors who works there:

"People have been left in the office after hours, when something like that happens -- it's the same sort of thing," said Dr. Steven Ketchel. "My guess is she was lying on the table, waiting and waiting and nobody told her she could go home."

Oh, is that your guess, Dr. Ketchel? Your incredibly flippant guess? She wasn't just laying on a table waiting for someone to tell her she could go home. She was inside of the machine, screaming for someone to come help her. When she finally wiggled out from under all of the things attached to her and blanketing her, she found herself in a shut down, LOCKED clinic. Everyone had gone home, and she couldn't get out. She had to call 911. From a health clinic.