Re: Different colors of dose

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

Current pay level of a nuclear medicine technologist

is about $70K



--- RuthWeiner@aol.com wrote:

> 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.

> ruthweiner@aol.com

> 





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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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