RE: A question about medical training

[Dan Marx <dmarx01@baker.edu>]

Apparently not much, in the greater Detroit there is an OB-GYN that
required a pregnant x-ray tech to have DNA testing because she was  
working with radiation.  It took some serious talking to the tech, she was
really
shook up!!!!!!

REGARDS

Dan     atreaOn Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Karin Gordon wrote:

> 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
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> Winnipeg, Manitoba
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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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DAN L. MARX
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