Re: MDL and Dose Effects - opinionated response -Reply

["H.Wade Patterson" <hwade@talltown.com>]

Charles Willis wrote:
> 
> Byron:
> 
> The reason for not wearing your dosimeter during a chest x-ray or
> other medical procedures is that, as Les said, the "dose" being 
> determined is a regulatory construct and generally the
> regulatory limits exclude medical radiation.
> 
> Charlie Willis

This "regulatory construct" is an example of why ALARA is useless. On
the one hand we spend untold time, money, and effort on ALARA in the
laboratory and institution, and nothing at all on ALARA where the doses
are the greatest, the medical field.
The gods must be crazy, to coin a phrase

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