[ RadSafe ] Deadly embrace: NRC policy can exposechildrento radioactivity, by retired........

[Steven Dapra]

         What a brainless assumption.  Did they manage to change their 
minds after the patient threw up on them?

Steven Dapra


At 10:04 AM 1/6/09 -0800, Conklin, Al  (DOH) wrote:
>Concerning patients following instructions, they are also told to avoid
>public transit for a period of time, but our law enforcement officers
>who carry the personal radiation detectors (PRDs)in Washington State
>routinely get hits on our ferries and around other public
>transportation. The first few times it happened, they assumed these
>folks might be terrorists, and responded accordingly before we got them
>to calm down the responses.
>
>
>Al Conklin
>Lead Trainer and Health Physicist
>Radiological Emergency Preparedness Section
>Office of Radiation Protection
>Department of Health
>office: 360-236-3261
>cell: 360-239-1237

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