Re: Medical Misadministration

[BLHamrick@aol.com]

In a message dated 8/11/99 3:43:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
Peter.Vernig@med.va.gov writes:

<< While a misadministration is not automatically a citation, 
 IMO you have about as much chance of evading a citation as you do if you are
 pulled over for doing 75 on a 55 stretch of road.  And the NRC has the habit
 of multiple citing.  That is you get cited for the misadmin., you get cited
 for failure to properly train the person who caused the misadmin. [almost
 any citation can be doubled by a failure to properly train], and you may get
 cited for allowing a dose to the public [when the wrong patient gets a dose
 s/he is public] to exceed 100 mrem/y.  Sometimes the ways of multiplying
 things are very creative. >>

My only point was (and I apparently didn't get it across) that licensees do 
not get cited FOR the misadministration.  Yes, there may be citations for 
failing to  train, supervise, or follow other procedures, but the 
misadministration itself is not a violation.  Contrast this with an 
overexposure, which in and of itself is a violation.

Barbara Hamrick
BLHamrick@aol.com
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