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Re: OR room x-ray patient for spounge count

I assume that sponges have been found by radiographyfluoroscopy, subsequent
to a physical inventory that supposedly accounted for all of them. Why not
do it? Anyway, it would seem to be the better part of valor.

chris alston
P.S. Opinions expressed here are mine alone.

At 12:21  12/12/97 -0600, you wrote:
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>Richard Wu, M.S., DABR, DABSNM
>RSO/Medical Physicist
>United/Unity/Mercy Hospital
>St. Paul, MN
>rwu@clinserv.com
>612-635-4404
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