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CT scan
Marlin:
Could not help myself [devious]
SloGlo:
🤣🤣🤣
peteshonkwiler:
Had my grandson in for a hip CT scan today. I asked what the dose would be from the scan. She replied with mobo jumbo designed to satisfy the populace of the government levels and how the hospital used 15% of that. When I identified myself as a Rad Pro professional, she threw out the applied wattage numbers. I asked once more about the dose and she blew me off with not having the time to get that information.
Fricken Jrs!
peteshonkwiler:
Just had an abdominal CT done. The rad tech this time was not as conversant as my previous experience. When I ID'd myself as a nuclear professional, she pulled the old dumb tech act and said that i would have to write the radiologist yadda yadda yadda and that she would have no availability of the data. Upon completion of the scan she said that she DID find the data in the printout by the machine. My exposure was 1.76mGy! As i was in alot of pain, i didn't push it. But, I know from previous, that was the dose per exposure, not the total. However, the dose per "slice" was quite a bit less than my prior CT, so unless she shot 8 times the previous I probably only got ~1 year's occupational.
Marlin:
Hype or real issue. I did additional searches on the subject and came up with nothing.
This medical test may cause cancer due to ‘unfathomable’ mistake — and it’s performed 93M times a year in the US
“No one intentionally harms their patients; they just haven’t been paying attention to radiation dose,” said Smith-Bindman, who worked with CMS to develop research solutions aimed at better measuring and assessing the effects of CT scans.
“The measure defines a clear standard for every type of scan with respect to dose and quality, and CMS provides incentives to reach those goals,” she added. “Clinicians can exceed those targets if they deem it necessary; the measure just provides them a way to gauge their performance.”
https://nypost.com/2025/03/11/health/common-medical-test-may-cause-cancer-due-to-unfathomable-mistake/
From WebMD
Can CT Scans Lead to Cancer?
https://www.webmd.com/cancer/can-ct-scans-lead-to-cancer
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