Re: pstd

["Michael Stabin" <michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu>]

Dear Bill,



I concede the point that in the first days after the incident, no one knew

what the consequences might be. But now, years later, knowing very well that

the highest off site dose was 0.8 mSv, less than a third of what is received

from natural radiation each year, the antis and the networks still describe

this in terms of "nightmare", "catastrophe", "terrible nuclear accident",

etc. and scare people about deformed children, strontium in baby teeth,

epidemics of cancer sweeping the northeast, etc. I'm just saying let's be

fair - if the government has to hand out sacks of money, these folks should

have to hand out sacks of money, too, if we're talking about PTSD. Please

give me the address of the drive thru window, people in my family have died

of cancer, and it could have been related to these "terrible" press releases

(I'm sure it wasn't the radiation from TMI).



Mike





Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP

Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

Vanderbilt University

1161 21st Avenue South

Nashville, TN 37232-2675

Phone (615) 343-0068

Fax   (615) 322-3764

e-mail  michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu







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