Hospitals use extremely high radiation levels in some cat scans - for

[old mark]

"clearer imaging" - up to 13 times normal radiation level!
Results in hair and memory los - maybe much more?
Practice seems widespread -

Link to NYT article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/01/health/01radiation.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss&src=igw

This is NOT reported because it is done deliberately, so it must be OK (because a doctor is doing it!)


mark

[Xipe Totec]

1. Oh well, I didn't need my nuts anymore. n/t

[doc03]

2. This crap scares me they discovered a spot on my lung

about 2 1/2 years ago and have taken a CT scan every 6 months since. I don't know what to do stop the scans and it turns out to be cancer or keep getting scans and posibly get cancer from them. I have suspicians that is the plan they say you have a spot on your lung, hell I don't know, they just say I do.

[CatsDogsBabies]

8. Did you have a PET scan or an MRI?

[iamtechus]

3. I'll be damned if I'll let them scan my cats /nt

[truedelphi]

13. I'd be all for it, but my

Cats would probably not agree.

And around here, they get the final say.

[SocialistLez]

4. It wouldn't surprise me if they did this on purpose

There is a whole industry based off of cancer.
What better way to get yourself some new patients than expose them to a bunch of radiation during a "routine scan"?

[HuckleB]

5. This has to be the most clueless post I've seen anywhere in some time.

WOW!

:wow:

[salvorhardin]

6. I've seen worse

But yeah, that comment is the equivalent of at least 600 rems of dumb rays.

[SocialistLez]

7. Your opinion...you obviously haven't read Poison Nation and read up on the cancer industry. NT

[HuckleB]

11. Thanks for admitting to your baseless propaganda sources.

[CatsDogsBabies]

9. Yeah, I agree it is pretty bad

I have been treated for cancer and so have both an oncologist and a radiation oncologist. I am amazed and grateful that people even go into this area of medicine. I am past treatment now (and hope to stay that way), but I know they see patients in all kinds of conditions. There is no answering service for oncologists - they are ALWAYS available. And I can tell they really feel for their patients and would do anything they could for them. There is no pay high enough to get someone to go into a field like this - I suspect for most people involved in oncology, their career choice is a real vocation. To suggest that they are just in it as a big money making scheme is offensive.

[SocialistLez]

12. So because you had compassionate doctors, it means they are all compassionate?

Ha ha.

Eh...it's all an industry.

One company who makes a cancer-causing agent also has the patent for a drug that treats cancer.
Health care in this country is a business and cancer is no exception.

[aenasmith]

10. Hospitals use extremely high radiation levels in some cat scans - for

High radiation levels cause serious problems to the health. Your shared articles tells many examples of many patients who are suffering from its effects. They all have serious problems which are difficult to solve out.