Re: Shoe Store FLuoro

[Rich Oesterling <ogr@twinpeak.inel.gov>]

Might be true, but with only one report, it sounds like an urban legend:-)

Rich Oesterling
ogr@inel.gov

On Fri, 28 Oct 1994 pward@iastate.edu wrote:

> The only report of radiation injury from shoe store fluoroscopes of which I
> am aware is an anecdote passed on by Professor G. Hoyt Whipple in one of my
> early rad health courses in grad school.  Supposedly, an attractive young
> woman who was hired to "demonstrate" the fluoroscopic devices at a 
> convention/trade show sometime in the 'forties spent a few days wiggling her
> toes in the X-ray beam.  She eventually had to have both feet amputated as a
> result of radiation-induced necrosis.
> 
> Again, this is strictly a classroom anecdote.  I have no reason to doubt it,
> but I also have no references or other substantiation.
> 
> Standard Disclaimer: These opinions are soley my own. If management agrees
> with me, it strictly coincidental (and unusual).  
> 
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