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RE: Re[2]: Irradiated milk to be available in Feb 2000



In our Nuclear Medicine department prior to administartion of the dose the
technologist does instruct the patient that they are being injected with a
small amount of radioactive tracer.  Most patients do not respond; some ask
if it is iodine dye like Radiology.

Charles Beasley, RSO
St. John's Regional Health Center

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> From: 	steve.rima@DOEGJPO.COM[SMTP:steve.rima@DOEGJPO.COM]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Tuesday, November 09, 1999 14:10
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re[2]: Irradiated milk to be available in Feb 2000
> 
>      I guess I don't see this the same way as some RADSAFERS. While the 
>      term "cold pasteurization" sounds better than "irradiated" and will 
>      certainly help with public acceptance, I don't see it as a way to 
>      "trick the public" any more than lots of other similar examples. We 
>      don't say that medical equipment or barber's shears are "exposed to 
>      non-ionizing radiation" when they are sterilized with UV. We don't 
>      address the specific process used in heat pasteurization, we just say
> 
>      that it's pasteurized. Heck, if we're going to be this picky about
> not 
>      "tricking the public," let's start calling it "injecting people with 
>      radioactive material" instead of "nuclear medicine." ;-)
>      
>      How about it hospital RSO's, would you rather start calling it 
>      "injecting people with radioactive material" and take the opportunity
> 
>      to educate the masses who would question it, or continue saving lives
> 
>      and calling it nuclear medicine?
>      
>      Tongue firmly in cheek.....
>      
>      Steven D. Rima, CHP, CSP
>      Manager, Health Physics and Industrial Hygiene
>      MACTEC-ERS, LLC
>      steven.rima@doegjpo.com
> 
> 
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> Subject: Re:Irradiated milk to be available in Feb 2000
> Author:  Bob Flood <bflood@SLAC.Stanford.EDU> at Internet
> Date:    11/9/99 1:06 PM
> 
> 
> At 11:35 AM 11/9/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>      
> >Instead of using the opportunity to educate the public, industry again
> skirts 
> >the issue by creative use of the English language in a deliberate attempt
> to 
> >"trick" the public
>      
> Very true. This attempt to deceive the public isn't any better or nobler 
> than the Tooth Fairy Project's attempts to deveive the public. And it
> seems 
> likely to backfire - people will distrust someone who has been found to 
> mislead them deliberately, and there's a strong probability that some 
> radiation-hating individual will notice the linguistic slight of hand and 
> contact the news media. Guess which news item will get more air time, the 
> announcement about "cold pasteurization" or exposing the deception?
>      
> ===================================
> Bob Flood
> Dosimetry Group Leader
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> (650) 926-3793
> bflood@slac.stanford.edu
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