Re: medical isotopes - patient expense

["Celia Rajkovich, RRPT" <celiar@andrew.cmu.edu>]

No Bill, its more like - As Bob Seger said -I feel like just a number!



--On Tuesday, November 25, 2003 8:22 AM -0500 William V Lipton 

<liptonw@dteenergy.com> wrote:



> Until now, I thought that the issue was getting patients healthy.  Now, I

> know better.

>

> This is all the more reason why 10 CFR 35.75 should be upgraded to

> require written information for ALL nuclear medicine patients. This

> should include:  (1) dose to the patient (CEDE and max. organ CDE), (2)

> dose to others, and (3) impact on radiation monitors.

>

> I can't believe this would be infeasible or too expensive.

>

> The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

> It's not about dose, it's about trust.

> Curies forever.

>

> Bill Lipton

> liptonw@dteenergy.com

>

> John Jacobus wrote:

>

>> ...

>

>> The problem with patients not being informed that they

>> are getting a medical test involving x-ray exposure or

>> the injection of radionuclides is not a new one.  The

>> issue is getting patients in and out of the clinic,

>> not education.  Sorry.  That is life in the medical

>> world.

>>

>> ---

>

>

>







Celia Rajkovich, RRPT

Carnegie Mellon University

EH&S - Radiation Safety

Mellon Institute 313 Box 90

Pittsburgh Pa. 15213

Phone 268-7502  Fax 268-1736

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