RE: A Question for Power Reactor Types and others with portal monitors.

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

I am always amazed when people go to "Nuclear

Medicine" and do not associate the term with

radiation.



--- "Flood, John" <FloodJR@NV.DOE.GOV> wrote:

> I have always been dismayed by the fact that the

> majority of people setting

> off the alarms find out from us that radioactive

> material was used!  Some

> get rather suspicious (and I don't blame them) when

> I call at the end of a

> quarter and say "you're TLD reading is typical of

> someone who had a stress

> test - did you?"

> 

> Bob Flood

> Nevada Test Site

> 

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Marty.Bourquin@GRACE.COM

> [mailto:Marty.Bourquin@GRACE.COM] 

> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 12:45 PM

> To: Radsafe@list.Vanderbilt.Edu

> Subject: RE: A Question for Power Reactor Types and

> others with portal

> monitors.

> 

> 

> We have a fairly "old" work force and see 4-5% of

> our people undergoing 

> Tc-99M or Tl-201 procedures each year.  The workers

> receiving Tc-99m can 

> usually pass our portals in 1-2 weeks.  The workers

> who receive Tl-201 

> usually cant pass through for at least 2 weeks and

> some take as long as 

> 4-5 weeks.

> 

> What really amazes me is the percentage of them who

> are not aware they 

> had a nuclear medicine procedure.  They are always

> amazed when they pass 

> the portal or the friskers and everything goes into

> alarm mode.  They 

> end up having to call their doctor and find out what

> isotope and 

> quantity they received.  In our latest case the

> doctor denied giving him 

> anything.  We had to perform a whole body scan on

> him to identify the 

> isotope and then go back to his doctor.  It turned

> out the doctor in 

> question had not performed a nuc medicine procedure

> but a specialist he 

> referred him to had.  Well it keeps my HP staff on

> their toes - breaks 

> up the daily routine.

> 

> Marty Bourquin

> W.R. Grace

> Marty.Bourquin@grace.com

> 

>

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

e-mail:  crispy_bird@yahoo.com



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