Radioactive patients

[fhf <maay100@bgumail.bgu.ac.il>]

Does anyone in the radsafe or nucmed groups see a radiation 
protection problem in the following situation?

A small nuclear medicine service seeing about 600 patients per 
month is situated in a large ambulatory non-hospital patient clinic. 
People waiting for scans, mainly bone studies, have received Tc-99m doses 
of the order of 20 mCi (740 MBq).

The patients waiting for nuclear medicine studies are generally 
sitting for 2-3 hours among other patients waiting to be seen in other
clinics, such as dermatology, internal medicine, pediatrics and others.

				Michael Quastel \MD PhD
				Soroka Medical Center
				Beer Sheva, Israel
				Fax: 972-7-6400765
				Email: maay100@bgumail.bgu.ac.il