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RE: HP Positions
> lobbying for federal funding for unneeded programs and then
> encouraging students to enter a field with poor job
> prospects. This does NOT promote the profession.
Well, I don't think that's a fair characterization of the situation. We
don't have the boom environment of the late 70s and 80s (anyone remember
the "bid on me, baby" cartoon in the old HP newsletter?), but radiation
safety in hospitals, universities, environmental applications, reactors,
and regulatory people to oversee such processes will always be needed,
and the current prospects are not, IMO, "poor" by any means.
Related to my area of interest, I was just in Italy, and as I understood
it, they now require a patient-specific treatment plan for all patients
receiving therapy with nuclear medicine pharmaceuticals. Our practice
here is frustrating for me, where the routine is to give all patients
the same number of MBq, with no study of organ/tumor uptake, half-time,
etc. I wish that we could require treatment plans - NOT just to make
more jobs for HPs, although that would result, but for the sake of the
patients. Their therapies under this approach are not optimal. I also
think we should have more requirements for well trained and certified
HPs being responsible for medical HP duties and not have this thrust on
Medical Physicists or even MDs, who may be smart enough to do it, but
who often don't have the time or focus to do it well.
Mike
Michael G. Stabin, PhD, CHP
Assistant Professor of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences
Vanderbilt University
1161 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37232-2675
Phone (615) 343-0068
Fax (615) 322-3764
Pager (615) 835-5153
e-mail michael.g.stabin@vanderbilt.edu
internet www.doseinfo-radar.com
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