Re: X-rays or Strip Search? -Reply -Reply

[Agnes Barlow <agnes.barlow@yale.edu>]

A hospital I used to work at in another state occasionally found itself
with a court order to xray a person.  The "patient" and police escorts
would just show up with the court order which specified the exam and our
facility.  The legal folks at the hospital would virtually always tell
the xray folks to comply and do the exam.  Perhaps that is how this is
being handled.

Aggie
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ssments and risk analysis which seem to predominate
> the discussion has anyone considered that it is, at the least, unethical and
> probably illegal to expose any person to a medical x-ray beam without the
> express direction of a physician.  As a health care professional, were I asked
> to do so, I would politely but firmly decline.
> 
> James Huesgen
> RT(R), MPA
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