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From: Mike Hunter on 24 Sep 2007 11:12
A quick search will reveal the problem with the foot X-ray machines was not
what hit the foot but the massive leaks from the machine that exposed those
that operated them to massive amounts of gamma rays daily.


mike



"Johnny Hageyama" <hageyama(a)hairdresser.net> wrote in message
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> dbu` wrote:
>
>> > Most of the increase in average lifespan has been due to the decrease
>> > in infant mortality, not due to adults living longer, but there's no
>> > reason to believe modern medicine hasn't contributed positively, a
>> > rare exception being its gross overuse of x-rays before the 1960s.
>>
>> Do you remember the x-ray machines in shoe stores?
>
> My father knew something about radiation exposure, and when he learned
> that a shoe-ftting machine in a dept. store used x-rays, he lectured
> the employees and customers about the dangers, but I don't think
> anybody listened to him. He said a boy there had looked at his foot
> for several minutes through the fluoroscope.
>
> Many children in the 1950s were treated with x-rays even all kinds of
> minor ailments, including swollen tonsils, and close to 100% of those
> kids eventually developed thyroid cancer.
>


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