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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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