Re: medical misadventures

[William V Lipton <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM>]

> These are still medical misadministrations and still dead patients, and still

> human error.  And we're not even considering errors involving nonlicensed

> radiation sources.



The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

It's not about dose, it's about trust.



Bill Lipton

liptonw@dteenergy.com



>

>

>

> Dear Mr. Yusko:

>

> I think perhaps you are confusing two distinctly different medical

> specialties, nuclear medicine and radiation oncology.  Nuclear medicine is

> the specialty that utilizes radiopharmaceuticals, and radiation oncology

> uses machine-produced therapeutic radiation or therapeutic radiation from

> sealed sources of radioactive material.  Big difference.  Different

> residency programs, different levels of administered radiation absorbed dose

> (nuclear medicine is 99.5% diagnostic), different levels of malpractice

> insurance, different dosimetry considerations, etc.

>

> Lumping them together is like lumping submarines and aircraft carriers

> because they are both boats.

>

> Ciao, Carol

>

> Carol S. Marcus, Ph.D., M.D.

> <csmarcus@ucla.edu>

>

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