Lately I have been looking at sets of x-rays and scans of myself and, believe me, there is no way the present technology would miss something the size of a pinhead, let alone a whole bullet. These scans and the like don't make the problem any better, but at least one knows where one stands. I'm told that I'm a quite annoying patient. I insist on looking into all the apparatus and asking all kinds of questions. Or maybe I am just one of those people who want the opportunity to hear themselves ask about the inferior articular process of the axis vertebra to justify the purchase of a copy of Gray's Anatomy twenty years ago.
Patients vary tremendously.
I sympathise with the medicals who have to put up with awkward patients like me. In other words, I am not a patient patient. Broo ha ha. Well done boys, I wish it would happen for me someday.