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Re: Get your CAT Scan here!



Susan,

    Aside from any diagnostic benefits he may receive, the CT scan recipient

also raises his dose level toward the hormetic optimum.





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

From: Susan McElrath <smhp@BELLSOUTH.NET>

To: 'Franz Schoenhofer' <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>;

<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 12:44 PM

Subject: RE: Get your CAT Scan here!





> 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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