Re: Article: High Security Trips Up Some Irradiated Patients,Doctors Say

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Thanks Barbara,



on 12/4/02 9:50 PM, BLHamrick@AOL.COM at BLHamrick@AOL.COM wrote:



> In a message dated 12/04/2002 5:04:34 PM Pacific Standard Time,

> muckerheide@attbi.com writes:

> 

>> If we are intelligent, we would use this new public awareness and reporting

>> of these incidents to communicate to the public that 100s of millions of

>> medical patients (those in general good health) get radiation doses

>> hundreds to thousands of times greater than the self-serving limits set by

>> gov't for "radiation protection," with no adverse effects.

> 

> I agree.  I think this provides us an excellent opportunity to educate

> society on this issue.  The more people who have radiation detectors, and

> find "sources" in their everyday lives, the more people will become

> accustomed to the idea that radiation is, indeed, everywhere - that is not an

> exotic poison.  It is simply something that is there, and in excess, it can

> kill, much like many other everyday items.





Like home heating vs. a flamethrower! :-)



And IAEA Gestapo would require that you "justify" home heating, say for each

degree above 15C (59F)?  :-)   With increasingly elaborate controls!



Regards, Jim





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