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RE: medical isotopes - patient expense
Medical facilities and providers are required to do
many things. Principally, they are to provide
standards of care to patients that are recognized as
safe and effective.
Providing patients with dosimetry information is not.
Many states require that x-ray exposure information be
posted. However, there is no requirement to give the
patient a card that says what their dose was.
--- "Hall, David A." <halld@NV.DOE.GOV> wrote:
> 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
> Pittsburgh Pa. 15213
> Phone 268-7502 Fax 268-1736
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