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Old 06-05-2008, 12:55   #9
Semper gumby
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Originally Posted by swatsurgeon View Post
Hospitals now have several safety systems in place in the operating room. Some have gone as far as doing an x-ray on every surgical patient (one day IF they ever develop a cancer, a lawyer will blame that single xray as the cause? ).

(Also being an x-ray technologist) Unfortunately I've heard of this happening also....The patient claimed that they had developed Cancer from a single Portable X-ray in the ER. The patient dividers at San Diego ER used to be nothing but drapes, and a portable chest x-ray was shot on a patient next door. I'm almost positive that the patient was not successful in his litigation.

Sorry, I digress....
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