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RE: Article: How I set off the subway radiation meter
Hi -
Yes, I see what you're saying. Thanks for the feedback.
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From: Sandy Perle [mailto:sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET]
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2002 4:05 AM
To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: Article: How I set off the subway radiation meter
Hello Sarah,
> An aggressive effort
> to reduce patient dose might say to patients, who come from all walks
> of life and know about radiation from what they hear from their
> neighbors and the President - Radiation is dangerous; so dangerous
> that we have to take expensive administrative steps to reduce patient
> dose.
I agree with your basic premise. Where there is good, there will always be a
negative
component. In my opinion, what should be stressed is that there is a process
going
forward to reduce dose to the patient without adversely affecting the
diagnostic, or
therapeutic benefit. To present this to them in layman's terms, one could
say that the
desirable technique only requires a total dose to the patient of about 2.5
rem, and,
the facility is required to ensure that there is no excessive dose for the
specific
technique observed. If we present it in "we'll only give you what you need,
and no
more" that will make sense to a majority of the patients.H
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