re: medical waste

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@YAHOO.COM>]

There are a number of medical tests and treatments

that leave patients radioactive for weeks, if not

months.  These include any implantation of radioactive

seeds, i.e., I-125. Pd-109, or Au-198, I-131

treatments for cancer or hyperthyroidism, and Tl-201

heart scans.

 

--- "Shawn Hughes (Road)" <srh@esper.com> wrote:



> This has been enlightening to me. It occurred to

> me.....   From a 

> regulatory standpoint, I believe they wouldn't be

> trying to prosecute the 

> individual as a licensee. They would prosecute at

> the state (potentially 

> the Federal) level just like if the person was

> unlawfully dumping any other 

> waste stream considered hazardous. Dunno about your

> areas, but I live near 

> Oak Ridge. They don't want you dumping tree limbs

> over 4 foot long. ;)

> 

> I can imagine what it would be like if a private

> municipal waste handler 

> here had to spend a few man-days (not hours)

> bringing the dump back into 

> compliance after a load tested hot. Someone would be

> paying. I think that 

> the dump would want to keep the hospital as a

> defendant, because they have 

> deeper pockets, but the saving grace would be in

> their policy and what they 

> gave to the patient in writing in reference to how

> to handle their wastes 

> and potentially contaminated items. Whether they

> would collect or not, I 

> suspect, would depend a great deal on how the local

> media spun the issue.

> 

> I wasn't aware there were medical therapies that

> caused the patient to 

> remain active for a week.

> 

> -Shawn

> 

> >Enough on this thread.

> >PVE

> 

>

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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