Re: Different colors of dose

[RuthWeiner@aol.com]

In a message dated 4/2/04 12:51:08 AM Mountain Standard Time, 

Peter.Thomas@arpansa.gov.au writes:



> Occupational

> exposure and

> environmental exposure are entirely different animals in that you

> receive no

> medical benefit (OK Howard, Jerry Cohen, etc no benefit is ASSUMED) but

> you

> still take on the radiological risk.

> 



No medical benefit,,maybe but there is certainly a benefit. It's a job, they 

get paid, they know about the hazards, they are badged, etc.  I would estimate 

that the occupational protection was better than what I had when in 1960, as 

a graduate TA,  I set up the radiochemistry lab and was constantly in and out 

of the isotope vault. I'll bet these workers got paid a lot better than I did. 

 And you know what?  i'm fine!  I have had skin cancers taken off my face (in 

fact I had one removed yesterday) but that's from hiking in the sun at high 

altitude without a hat or sunscreen.



Ruth

Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

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