"One night I gave up on being talked out of my own body, downloaded a DICOM viewer, pulled the images and started teaching myself how to read them." Have you ever been up at 1 a.m. studying thousands of black-and-white images of your own insides on a free DICOM viewer — the software application used to view medical images like MRIs — you downloaded earlier that day, teaching yourself radiology out of sheer desperation? No? Just me? Let me back up. It started in late 2022. Abdominal pain that