Re: X-rays or Strip Search?

[Todd Maxwell <toddmax@scripps.edu>]

At 07:08 AM 12/4/98 -0600, you wrote:
>...following an interview,
>given the choice of strip search or be escorted to a nearby HOSPITAL for
>x-ray examination.  This implies abdominal x-ray for ingested objects.

If they are giving you a choice between a strip search and an x-ray how can
it possibly be for ingested objects?  Unless these strip searchers are more
talented than I thought, an ingested ballon will go undetected.  That can't
be what the x-ray procedure is meant to detect.

>As a health care professional, were I asked
>to do so, I would politely but firmly decline.

You would choose to have a customs official perform a cavity search but you
wouldn't want a hospital to perform a simple x-ray?  No thanks.  I'll take
the x-ray.




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