[ RadSafe ] Medical Evaluation (or symptoms possibly from radiation overexposure)

[howard long]

Your friend's family doctor could 1, check for skin cancers (likely from other causes),
2, take a white blood cell count (unlikely to show either too many or too few)
3, compare the dose received to a CT scan, about 1 rad, even 10 of which are more likely to give less cancer, as indicated by data from Chernobyl, Hiroshima, etc.
 
Those should be easily done,  as well as as review of  far more likely causes of cancer and other trouble from diet, lack of exercise, stress, etc, in a regualr yearly checkup most doctors advise.
 
Howard Long MD MPH

I have a friend who was overexposed with radiation some years ago.
He has now developed symptoms and would like someone to examine him.
Should he seek a Health Physist, an MD of some kind, or some other type of expert? Who are the really experienced individuals in this area?
Cindy D.




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