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

["Beasley, Charles W." <CWBeasley@sprg.smhs.com>]

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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