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Re: medical isotopes - patient expense

On 25 Nov 2003 at 8:22, William V Lipton wrote:



> 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.



99.99% of those receiving this detailed information would have not a 

clue as to what it means (don't ask for back-up support for my 

statistics - only provided for discussion purposes).



While patients should be given information regarding the test they 

are to receive, what the purpose of the test is, what consequences 

there may be, if any, is important, I just don't believe that dose 

information is very useful or meaningful. I can say that since in my 

work I speak to a lot of physicians and technologists, from small and 

large facilities, and when they receive an occupational dose, they 

often call to ask about what it means. If the profession who receives 

the dose (many of them) haven't a clue as to what the dose values 

mean, hat do we expect the general public to come away with if this 

information is given to them.



Let's not complicate things any mofre than they already are.



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