[ RadSafe ] dose RATE of ANY Medicine is the decisive variable

[Otto Raabe]

At 09:45 AM 9/6/2006, howard long wrote:
>100 aspirin  -  fatal at once, good over a year (to reduce clots and 
>mortality rate).
>   10 gallons of water - fatal at once, necessary over a year (in some 
> form) to sustain life
>   1000 usual daily doses of Vit A, D, E, R, etc all at once can poison 
> the liver, etc.
>   Any prescription I write must have the frequency of the dose, or a 
> pharmacist would not fill it.
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All of these examples refer to deterministic processes rather than 
stochastic processes, so no LNT advocate would consider them  to be 
relevant for evaluating radiation induced cancer.

Otto


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