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RE: A Question for Power Reactor Types and others with portal monitors.
When I had my stress test, it was at a cardiology clinic. But I have to
agree with your point - many do go into nuclear medicine clinics without
giving a thought to the "nuclear" word.
Bob Flood
-----Original Message-----
From: John Jacobus [mailto:crispy_bird@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 2:12 PM
To: Flood, John; 'Marty.Bourquin@GRACE.COM'; Radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: A Question for Power Reactor Types and others with portal mon
itors.
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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