I hope you do not think this is a new problem.
"Vernig, Peter G." <Peter.Vernig@MED.VA.GOV> wrote:
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