[ RadSafe ] Facts: breast cancer, "radioactive wires implanted", "localized seeds"

[John Jacobus]

There is also the "business" aspect of medicine.  You
have X number of patients to be scanned or treated in
a day.  If the technologist has to explain what is
going to happen, that backs up the line.  The patient
usually does talk to the referring physician as most
people do not question their doctors.

--- "Flood, John" <FloodJR at nv.doe.gov> wrote:

> patients not being told -
> 
> 15 years ago it was common for clinics to tell
> patients nothing about the use of radioactive
> material in diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. 
> Today, it is dramatically less common, but not
> unheard of.
> 
> The medical use of radioactivity has blossomed in
> recent years (a real growth industry), and clinics
> have gotten much, much better at informing patients
> about it.  But we still see the infrequent case of a
> gate alarm caused someone blissfully unaware that
> s/he is the cause.  I agree that the medical
> community has a problem with a public that doesn't
> understand a lot of this, and I find myself unable
> to be too critical of a provider who skips an
> explanation after a series of patients that were
> either actively clueless or aggressively hostile
> about the use of radioactivity.  Nevertheless, it
> still happens.
> 
> Bob Flood
> 
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-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com


       
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