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Re: Badges for surgery
What's worst is when they all start wearing them. At
a former facility, the physicians received all new
leaded aprons with their names on them. To show off
their new, professional images, they started to wear
their film badges. Doses went from 0-10 mrem per
month to 50-100+! Of course, their first comments
were: "How can this be?" and "The equipment must be
leaking."
Luckily, they returned to their old habits after a few
months.
--- alstonchris@netscape.net wrote:
> Caveat emptor. Some states may have rules like the
> one in Washington, which says (said?) that anyone
> "associated" with the operation of a fluoroscope
> shall be badged.
> On the other hand, if you issue badges to all of
> them, but half, or more, of them don't wear them
> routinely, or at all, then you're creating a
> possibly spurious database of their exposures. This
> was a real problem for me, at one place I worked.
>
> Cheers
> cja
>
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John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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