Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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Radiation Safety in a Hospital Setting
The patient had been shot with a relativistic, you know, beam of electrons and Einstein gun. So she was then seen by the medical physicist. He reviewed her determined to receive one to two doses of radiation in the 15 to 20,000 rad range. It does seem like almost universally radiation is always like the last thing anyone thinks about about any particular injury.
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