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

[Glen.Vickers@ucm.com]

The issue is clear.  People really are ignorant about radiation and
radioactivity.  It must be okay to get a little if it is prescribed by a
doctor.  People probably see other users as those strictly out to make money
and think those users are willing to cover up a few things to continue
making money.  People cover up little things in business everyday to make
money, so I guess I can see a difference in acceptance by the public.

Glen
glen.vickers@ucm.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Beasley, Charles W. [SMTP:CWBeasley@sprg.smhs.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, November 09, 1999 3:16 PM
> To:	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject:	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
> 
> > ----------
> > 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
> > 
> > 
> > ______________________________ Reply Separator
> > _________________________________
> > 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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