
Episode 121: Therac-25
Well There‘s Your Problem
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The Effects of Whole Body Radiation Dose
The more doses you are exposed to over a length of time, the more sort of- they build up within the body. People will still be like, why does my dentist step out of the room when they do the x-rays? What the fuck? And- and first about that: It's mainly because it's sort of the radiation dose plastic. So different tissue absorbs at different rates, which is the other, which iswhy that they will sort of get onto the design of some of the machines used to treat this in certain ways. I think we're on to the next slide.
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