RE: medical isotopes - patient expense

["Hall, David A." <halld@NV.DOE.GOV>]

Group,



Please pardon my ignorance, but doesn't the medical facility and providers

have to evaluate this information anyway?  Shouldn't they already 'know' (1)

(2) and (3) listed below? I hope the answer isn't "for procedure x you give

patient y amount of z."



My own curiosity only,



David Hall

Las Vegas, Nevada

 



-----Original Message-----

From: Celia Rajkovich, RRPT [mailto:celiar@andrew.cmu.edu] 

Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 6:18 AM

To: radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu

Subject: Re: medical isotopes - patient expense





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

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