[ RadSafe ] CT scans dangerous?

[The Wilsons]

Are you suggesting that ALARA does not apply to the exposure received by 
radiologists, nurses, doctors, Xray technicians, machine operators, 
machine maintenance persons, etc.?  Are these folks not involved with 
medical exposures?  You must be referring to patients only.  And how 
does the fact that there have been multiple cases of patients receiving 
exposures in excess of what was really required?  Isn't the concept of 
exposing a cancer to only the amount of radiation required to treat the 
cancer a form of ALARA?

John Jacobus wrote:
> Ward,
> ALARA does not and should not apply to medical
> exposures. ALARA principles are used to reduce the
> risk of harmful effects associated with radiation
> exposures.  In medicine, the patient is frequently
> already at risk from harm due to disease or injury. 
> Radiation, surgery, prescribed drugs, etc., all have
> the potential to improve the patents' health and
> quality of life.  
>
> While physicians are probably not trained in the risks
> of radiation exposure, drug interactions, etc. they
> assume total responsibility for the patient under
> their care.  
>
>
> --- "Brunkow, Ward" <ward.brunkow at wipp.ws> wrote:
>
>   
> http://gr.acr.org/acr?action=viewNewsArticle&documentId=2c9e4f69159c076a
>   
>
> +++++++++++++++++++
> "If you guard your toothbrushes and diamonds with equal zeal, you'll probably lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds."
> - Former national security advised McGeorge Bundy
> -- John
> John Jacobus, MS
> Certified Health Physicist
> e-mail:  crispy_bird at yahoo.com
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