Re[2]: Insulting postings on RADSAFE

[col_eric_daxon@medcom2.smtplink.amedd.army.mil]

     The "High Plains Drifter wrote:
     
    "In her writings to the NRC she puts names in context with her insults about 
    the NRC....  She is just saying what many feel and are afraid to say in 
    public.  Seemingly never ending bureaucratic incompetence is hard to swallow 
    when you are paying thousands of dollars for it."
    
    The most constructive way to point out things that need to be changed is to 
    be objective and focus on the actions and the results and not personnel.  
    Unless I am there, in NRC headquarters, and know the constraints and 
    pressures put upon the real people working in the organization, I find it 
    very hard to judge personal competency.
    
    I have found that the best way to develop novel solutions to perplexing 
    problems is to bring different opinions to a table in a manner that no one 
    is put into a "foxhole" and forced to fend off direct or obtuse personal 
    attacks in a public forum.
    
    We are at a point where the whole idea of radiation risk needs to be 
    reexamined.  For the longest time we have been solely concerned with just 
    radiation risk and have dealt with it in isolation from all other risks.  
    This is becoming more and more impossible to do because we are increasing 
    overall risk.  This point is being brought home to those of us dealing with 
    military health physics with crystal clarity.  In many respects, this is 
    part of the problem we are currently facing with "radiation phobia."
    
    This problem will require the open and direct interaction of all in this 
    community to solve.  I am hoping that the interactions on radsafe will 
    foster this process.
    
    These opinions are mine and mine alone.
    
    Eric G. Daxon, PhD, CHP
    edaxon@juno.com



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