UK - London - a tuberculosis patient is helped into and onto the MRI scanner bed

Francis Elias Palma suffers from tuberculosis to the lungs and to the spine. He is helped into the MRI scanner room and onto the scanner bed. Francis lived on the streets before he was admitted to hospital and diagnosed with tuberculosis where he commenced a DOT, Directly Observed Treatment. Making his way into a TB Department every day to take his tablets. Even though he took his medicine he started to feel more and more pain in his back. He was suffering not only from TB to the lungs but also (Photo by In Pictures Ltd./Corbis via Getty Images)