Kuala Lampur, Aug. 27 -- Lying on a metal platform, arms over my head, topless while a strange machine rotates two discs overhead and around my body - this is not the sci-fi future I'd imagined.

It would have been nice to have a pamphlet even but this is KL General Hospital (HKL) where funding is so dire my hospital records are all in a single physical file, that travels to whichever department I'm currently getting treatment.

Digitalisation? Centralised record keeping? Apparently this is too much trouble and money to spend so I had better hope my file never gets caught up in something as sadly probable as an electrical fire.

What no one tells you (because the hospital staff are overworked and too busy keeping people alive) is that rad...