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RE: Re: Article: High Security Trips Up Some Irradiated Patients, Doctors Say
JIm,
Very good comments, and this is the kind of information that should be going
out. However, we have a continual barrage "news" and administrative
statements that say we should ever alert and fearful. It is affecting our
lives in ways that people are starting to accept. Whether it is smallpox,
nerve gas or radiation, there is a new concern that we have to turn our
attention to.
My hope is that people will start suffering from crisis fatique, and will
start considering what are the real risks in our world. Like driving in the
DC area.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
jenday1@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Muckerheide
Sent: 12/4/2002 5:55:47 PM
To: Bruce Bugg; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu; Ruth Weiner
Subject: Re: Article: High Security Trips Up Some Irradiated Patients,
Doctors Say
. . .
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. (The medical literature
reports such exposures as "safe," with the WB dose from I-131 hyperthyroid
therapy variously reported as from 10 to 25+ rem, while EPA's "limit" for
natural radioactivity in drinking water is 4 mrem per year.) And we need to
explain that we could stop the loss of billions of dollars if we could stop
the false claims of "risk" that are used to justify these costly "radiation
protection" limits in accordance with such well-known actual risks in actual
people, especially if we identify the enormous un-met needs for health and
medical safety and alternative applications that could use the funds to save
lives instead of costing lives.
. . .
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