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RE: A question about medical training
In Canada, diddly-squat!! Bu that doesn't stop some doctors from making
uninformed (and often very wrong) pronouncements that their patients take as
gospel!!
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Karin Gordon RTR, RTNM, RTT
Radiation Safety Coordinator
Winnipeg Regional Health Authority
Health Sciences Centre
GC-214, 820 Sherbrook Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba
CANADA, R3A 1R9
phone (204) 787-2903
fax (204) 787-1313
e-mail kgordon@hsc.mb.ca
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-----Original Message-----
From: ruth_weiner [mailto:ruth_weiner@email.msn.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 1:50 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: A question about medical training
Dear RADSAFERs,
We have a local anti-nuke activist who is a physician (please note that I am
deliberately not identifying him). However, in a fairly extended
conversation with me he seemed to know very little about ionizing radiation.
He had a vague idea about half life, but did not understand the relationship
between half-life and radioactivity, did not appear to know what alpha, beta
and gamma radiation were, didn't understand decay chains, etc. Most of what
he asked me about was stuff I used to teach in (college) freshman chemistry.
So my question is: what is taught currently in medical school and pre-med
courses about ionizing radiation? could someone give me a summary? How
much is a doctor expected to know (he sends people for x-rays, after all)?
Was this person just trying to see if I knew what I was talking about?
Thanks for your help
Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
7336 Lew Wallace NE
Albuquerque, NM
505-856-5011
fax 505-856-5564
ruth_weiner@msn.com
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