Re: Medis bias

[LNMolino@AOL.COM]

Allow me to those in this non RAD specific observation.



I am 38 and folks my age absent specific RAD training hear RADIATION and they 

think Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and of course the made for TV movie "The 

Day After" those images are burned into their heads. Our parents on the other 

hand think of think like Duck and Cover Drills and those old CD cartoons and 

then some a bit older recall newsreels of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. All are 

GRAPHIC images imbedded deep into the psyche of those age brackets (generally 

speaking).



Today's youth hear bout Dirty Bombs and the like on CNN and via the web and 

in any other manners of mass communications most of which has little or no 

science behind it or more often then we'd like to admit it has bits and pieces of 

science and there in lies the issues the missing bits and pieces.



I bet if we asked 100 adults is RAM glowed most would say yes and if we asked 

that same question to RESPONDERS charged with dealing with those dirty bombs 

and the other aspects of RAD emergency response (not responders in the nuclear 

industry mind you every day guys and gals like me) they too would be ill 

informed.



The sixty-four thousand dollar question is how do we tap into resources such 

as RADSAFE to improve the training of both responders and the public at large. 

I for one have even just today used this list to improve my training product 

with some simple questions answered by this list and it is not the first time 

I've done so. that is a step but in my view even I am moving too slow!



Louis N. Molino, Sr., CET

FF/NREMT-B/FSI/EMSI

LNMolino@aol.com

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"A Texan with a Jersey Attitude"



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