NRC PROPOSES $6,000 FINE AGAINST ST. JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL IN MICHIGAN FOR OVEREXPOSURE TO A MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

May 14



	This whole boondoggle about the fine is insane.



	If that daughter were pregnant and decided to hire an abortionist to kill

her child no one -- not even her own husband -- could stop her.  If that

patient were at death's door he could be moved out of the hospital and the

daughter could retain one of Jack Kevorkian's kindred spirits to kill said

patient and the district attorney would probably sit on his hands.



	But just let the daughter get exposed to a relatively small amount of

radioactivity that even the NRC would admit is harmless, and the regulators

go berserk.



	To top it all off, Michael D. Kent suggests that the hospital have its

license revoked for a while, and, "Enough hospital's [sic] lose their

license, that would scare all the other hospitals to permanently get their

act together."



	Do you really want to "scare" people??  Have we sunk so far that we are

proposing that bullying and intimidation be used to whip people into line?

This is but a shade of Stalinism.  Is health physics supposed to help usher

in a police state?



	Yes, someone needs to get his act together.



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com







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