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|Articles|July 1, 2012

Idea Exchange: Another use for light boxes

That x-ray box in your exam room can perform a double duty.

Although we now use digital radiography, we occasionally receive standard images from other veterinarians. For this reason, we still keep a light box in our intensive care unit (ICU). But it is rarely used for this purpose. Instead, we use it mainly as a dry-erase board for information about our patients in the ICU.

Dr. Erika Henson

Roanoke, Va.


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