Attitude to 'Risky' Treatment

[Chris Davey <chris.davey@cancerboard.ab.ca>]

Hi All,



Please check out the following link:  www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030924/04

<http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20030924/04>



Note especially the second and third paragraphs:



But what does it mean? "It means we'll be taking decisions much quicker and

being willing to take some more risks, not risks with lives but to save

lives," a World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson told The Scientist.



Jim Kim, advisor on HIV/AIDS and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) to

the WHO director-general , told The Scientist , "We are declaring an

emergency because to bicker and argue while people are dying is not

acceptable."



To see authorities saying that it is necessary to take risks to save lives,

and that bickering and arguing while people are dying is not acceptable,

makes me think about our low level radiation treatments, which are not even

risky, and would reduce the numbers of people dying, by a very large

proportion.



It's time the same attitude prevailed in radiation safety!



Regards,



Chris



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