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RE: radiography - deja vu all over again
Just
as an aside, since cardiologists were mentioned, antidotal information.
Someone I know involved with cardiologists asserts that some of the older ones
would not wear their film badges when the ALARA investigational levels kicked in
because they were always being pestered by the RSO as to why their exposures
were high.
Peter
Vernig
In a message dated 5/21/2003 10:41:37 AM
Pacific Standard Time, LGrimm@FACNET.UCLA.EDU writes:
IRs as a group had more overexposures than any other group of
radioactive material users, and probably still do.
I have
a quick caveat to insert here, and that is, if you look at cardiologists, you
may find comparable rates of overexposures from the procedures they perform
using x-ray producing machines. We tend to focus on the dangers of
radioactive materials, and forget the dangers of machine use. I believe
that this is due, in part, to the fact that we have a comprehensive national
program to address RAM use, but that radiation machine use is not so
consistently nor comprehensively regulated.
Barbara