| ▲ | gleenn 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
My friend who is a Radiologist said all the older, more seasoned Radiologists don't have any hair that grows on their hands anymore. She said she was glad to get out because even if they provide lead bibs, the doctors doing emergency radiology type treatments were still exposed long term. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | colechristensen 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
There have also been developments that have reduced radiation doses 30-90% per imaging event with the transition from film to digital xrays and the progression of the various digital sensors continued to reduce doses. Current leading edge and future sensors have potential to improve on this by orders of magnitude having the sensitivity to count photons. So current old radiologists might have exposures that new radiologists may never get remotely close to by the time they're old. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | copperx 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Interesting. I didn't know radiologists were exposed to radiation. I thought that was the job of the radiology techs. | |||||||||||||||||
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