RE: CSI Miami I-131 Espisode

["Strickert, Rick" <rstrickert@signaturescience.com>]

Walter Cofer wrote:



> If you can correctly ID all the ways they got it wrong, 

> that would be a nice demonstration of your HP knowledge



And your stamina!  Maybe one could spend a few seconds and just state what was right.  I think I saw a Ludlum in one scene... before they announced the I-131 had decay away after a few hours.  



I wonder what medical doctors are going to tell patients who come in for thyroid treatments ("But, Doctor, it will eat away my neck just like I saw it do to the dead guy's hand on CSI Miami!").



Rick Strickert

Austin, TX



> -----Original Message-----

> From:	Walter Cofer [SMTP:cofer@nettally.com]

> Sent:	Monday, February 10, 2003 10:26 PM

> To:	Strickert, Rick; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject:	CSI Miami I-131 Espisode

> 

> I agree; that was a pathethic display of health physics, and a shame too, because these shows just continue to perpetuate radiophobia among the masses, and we have a hard enough time getting out the facts without just trash.  Since the action took place in Miami, it would have been under my agency's jurisdiction, not the NRC's, both I'm gratefull the Bureau's name didn't come up because I don't want any association with such junk.  And it was the little things that really bothered me, such as Caruso pronouncing it "I-one-three-one" instead of "I-one-thirty-one."  Come on, nobody says it like that!

> 

> The show does have one redeemiong quality, however; it could be used as a training exercise.  

> 

> If you can correctly ID all the ways they got it wrong, that would be a nice demonstration of your HP knowledge.

> 

> 

> Walter Cofer

> FL Bureau of Radiation Control 

> 

> (usual disclaimers - personal observations; I'm not speaking as a representative of my agency...)

> 

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> And it's only 20 minutes into the show!!!

>  

> Rick Strickert

> Austin, TX

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