Re: Radiation tests at VA hospital questioned

[Lester.Slaback@nist.gov]

Nor a member of the AAPM.

In <9707312132.AA26795@beta.tricity.wsu.edu>, on 07/31/97 
   at 04:38 PM, rkathren@tricity.wsu.edu (Ron L. Kathren) said:

>I note with some interest that the 'top radiation safety officer' Moussa
>Raiszadeh, PhD in radiopharmaceutical sciences notwithstanding, is
>neither a CHP nor a member of the HPS.

>Ron Kathren, CHP  


>At 10:10 AM 7/31/97 -0500, Sandy Perle wrote:
>>The following article was published this morning. It does not say 
>>anything as to when these tests were conducted.  I expect that this 
>>will undoubtedly receive a lot of media attention, and we in the HP 
>>profession should be cognizant of this.
>>
>>LOS ANGELES (July 31, 1997 10:21 a.m. EDT) -- Dozens of patients 
>>taking part in veterans hospital research may have been exposed to 
>>risky doses of radiation without their knowledge, the "Los Angeles 
>>Times" reported Thursday.
>>
>>However, doctors at the Veterans Administration medical center in Loma
>>Linda said they've engaged in no improprieties despite the claims of
>>the facility's top radiation safety officer, Moussa Raiszadeh, the
>>newspaper said.
>>
>>"If I was adequately convinced that patient safety ... was
>>safeguarded, I would have dropped this issue on the first day,"
>>Raiszadeh said. "I want to do my job. If I don't report this, there is
>>no one else who would."
>>



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