Re: "Limit to Survival - Effect of Radiation

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 10/4/02 6:55:48 PM Mountain Daylight Time, muckerheide@attbi.com writes:



> > Around 1960-61, obstetricians stopped routinely x-raying the fetus at term
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> > (to detect breech presentation).
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> Do you have data anywhere except in Chicago? (Oppenheim, Chicago lying-in
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> hospital, 1974 - Only fetal exposure with no medical reason I'm aware of,
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> unlike Alice Stewart et al.)


Interestingly, I have personal data.  One of my daughters was born in 1961,  in Baltimore.  The latter birth was a bit difficult (she got stuck and was a forceps delivery), and my OB guy  told me that from 1960 on, routine x-ray in cases like mine, and in suspected breech presentations, had not been done since 1960, in accordance with the policies of the Maryland Medical Association.   


Ruth

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