Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A Side of Radiation With that CT Scan?

How could all of this be happening in a nation that claims to be the cream of the crop, the place to be for cutting edge anything and the land of opportunity?
From a lack of proper care in hospitals to the point where people are dying to some of our CT machines "deliver[ing] the radiation equivalent of 400 chest X-rays" we seem to have a missing link.
These stories particularly caught my eye because of the ongoing health care debate and the governments continued insistence that we not only have the best facilities but they are available to all. If that was the case, why are people dying in hospitals due to negligence on the part of doctors and nurses? Why are machines which are intended to detect abnormalities and save lives actually harming patients more than anything else? And why are we the tax payers paying for it?!

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