[HSF] Image of the Week - Fixing a tube :)(OT)

[prasannasimha]

Isn't that what a lawyers job is always about ?
Prasanna

Ben Bidstrup wrote:
> A very long bow !
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>> They were taking about Lawyers being ready to sue for radiation 
>> induced malignancies etc etc.
>> There are now people who are concerned that any malignancy may be 
>> labeled "radiation induced" In fa ct the MRI companies are working 
>> hotly to give an equivalent result and thus without radiation 
>> exposure and better tissue characterization. That may be really the 
>> future.
>> Prasanna
>> DukeB60 at aol.com wrote:
>>>   In a message dated 2/1/2007 12:49:15 P.M. Central Standard Time, 
>>> prasannasimha at gmail.com writes:
>>>
>>> Latest  in suing - X Ray exposure wrt 64 slice CT scanning.
>>> We had a discussion in  CCM-List
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Prassanna,
>>>     Can you elaborate.  I have been involved in CT  imaging for 
>>> years and am amazed and dismayed by the whirlwind of excitement for 
>>> the 64 slice scanner.  I was informed just today that last month 
>>> 1200 scan  were done on the 64 slice machine at our hospital.  This 
>>> is a general use  machine with cardiology having it's own 64 slice 
>>> machine separately so this  doesn't even include what may be 
>>> appropriate CTA's.  I can't believe that  but a few couldn't have 
>>> been done equally well on a 16 or even 4 slice machine  with much 
>>> less radiation exposure.  It seems someone has completely lost 
>>> perspective of the bigger picture and has completely lost respect 
>>> for the  radiation exposure of these machines.  I'm not sure who 
>>> decides which  machine to schedule studies on but undoubte
>>> dly considerations of reimbursement  and throughput have superceded 
>>> a more responsible policy of which machine to  use.
>>>
>>>                                                                             
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