Should dose monitoring be like VIN's & odometer readings for cars?

[Andrew Lukban <lukbaa15@bmec.hscbklyn.edu>]

I don't know if this has ever been asked on this list before

- but I'll ask it anyway.



SCENARIOS:

So you have a resident in your radiology department. You

badge 'em - then you hear they rotate elsewhere. They're not

supposed to bring your institution's monitor to that other

place. So how do you know what are the correct cumulative

readings? What of attendings who moonlight and do not want

to volunteer their other activities? What of rad techs who

have multiple places of employment?



QUESTIONS:

How many different dose monitors do they wear and do all

those readings add up somewhere for that persons cummulative

occupational reading? Should there be a centralised

(government?) database to which companies upload their

respective data? Should there be a web interface to such

data so that those monitored can view their readings more

conveniently themselves? Should we have dose monitor

readings tracked like odometer readings related to VIN's?



A DARE:

I can come up with the web interface and programs if people

agree to centralise the data. Maybe I'll start a company and

lobby the NRC. It makes too much sense to me.



Andrew :)

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