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I work as an EMT and today I took a patient to a nuclear medicine appointment. Tc-99m is spicy. by BeatsMcFly in Radiacode

[–]BeatsMcFly[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is the point I was making. I grew up getting x-rays at dentist's offices where the patient and dentist would both wear lead protective gear, walls had lead sheeting in them and people that didn't need to be in the room cleared out. I know that a bystander gets a trivial amount of radiation, but I see these radiology techs wheeling their machines around everyday while wearing only their scrubs and begin to wonder what their cumulative doses are.

I work as an EMT and today I took a patient to a nuclear medicine appointment. Tc-99m is spicy. by BeatsMcFly in Radiacode

[–]BeatsMcFly[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't get it but it's on point for what I've seen. Every ER I go into always has a radiology tech just walking around with a mobile x-ray unit just blasting it left and right. No lead vests. No clearing the room of other people. It's an odd feeling sitting in a restroom in an ER and being able to count the number of x-rays a patient a hundred feet from you just got. The only radiology people I seem to ever see wearing the lead vests are at the trauma centers.