RE: Get your CAT Scan here!

["Susan McElrath" <smhp@BELLSOUTH.NET>]

Whoa, there, you read way too much into my message. I was not posting

this message to enlighten anyone of the American way of life. I was

responding to an original post about the mobile CT scan. From an HP

perspective, it is interesting that this practice adds to total dose to

the public yet was, for at least one individual, very beneficial.



I think it is also interesting that the baseball player, who was NOT

having any symptoms of disease, got "lucky" when he decided to have a

scan. As far as I know, he's not actively promoting having scans.



And I completely disagree with you "that your way of living is in no way

of interest to other cultures..." but that is an entirely different

discussion.



-Susan McElrath





-----Original Message-----

From: Franz Schoenhofer [mailto:franz.schoenhofer@chello.at] 

Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 1:18 AM

To: Susan McElrath; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: AW: Get your CAT Scan here!







-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----

Von: owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

[mailto:owner-radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu]Im Auftrag von Susan McElrath

Gesendet: Montag, 10. Februar 2003 19:44

An: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Betreff: RE: Get your CAT Scan here!





Well-known hall of fame pitcher Don Sutton, currently an announcer for

the Atlanta Braves gave himself a "Christmas present" of a CT Scan for

Christmas 2001. Results: malignant kidney tumor, removed summer 2002,

prognosis: excellent.



I know these "CAT-mobiles" contribute to the overall dose, blah, blah,

but it's hard to argue against a case like Mr. Sutton's.

-------------------------------





Who is Mr. Sutton????? What is a "Pitcher" - somebody who drinks his

alcohol

from the pitch? What are the Atlanta Braves????



Franz Schoenhofer, Austria, Europe



These are rhethoric questions, because I have been long enough in the

USA to

know the answer to these questions.



When will you US-Americans understand, that your way of living is in no

way

of interest to other cultures - like the Islam, the Hindi, the

Buddhists,

the Europeans Christians? Come on flame me - this will not change

anything

about how ridiculous it is that some base-ball star underwent a CT. In

my

country anybody, starting from the people cleaning the streets, who will

have any CT scan free of charge, if there is a suspicion for an illness

to

be discovered by a CT scan up to high ranked government officials, who

would

have to pay 20 % or the costs.



It would be impossible that some soccer-star or skiing-star (similar to

a US

base-ball star) would "advertise" for taking a CT-scan. We radiation

protection people and authorities would never allow that. We still

adhere to

the ALARA principle. Therefore it should be more than easy to argue

against

the case of Mr. Sutton!!!!



Franz





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