There is really no absolutely safe dose of radiation. Each exposure is additive, and there is no need to incur any extra radiation when there is an alternative.Dr. Dong Kim, chair of neurosurgery at the UT Medical School
Show me all the TSA studies you want, when medical doctors opt out of the scanners it sends a powerful message.
And what is it with CNN pimping Sanjay Gupta all the time? When he was limited to doing medical commentary on CNN, he was credible. Not anymore. So why quote him as a doctor who doesn’t mind the extra scanner radiation? Especially when he just said this two weeks ago on AC360:
“Obviously having more radiation is not a good thing.”
The doubletalk is hurting my brain, Sanjay. Can I make an appointment to have you look at it?
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But… but.. but… TAIRISTS! Be afraid! Report your parents! We have alwayas been at war with Eastasia!!!!!
As with all things medical these days – follow the money, then run far, far away (don’t fly, run)
If we as a nation developed fast train technology, like we did the interstate system, using the same parallel roads the want or need for air travel would almost vanish except in more extreme routes.
Sanjay Gupta is an kinda a clown. I’ve been a nurse for many years and some of the things I see him talk about are so “nursing 101″ it makes me sick. He just dummies down every thing to make it sound like it’s such a remarkable revelation! Most of the crap he talks about you should have learned in health class in High School…..Oh I forgot….our govt. likes us to raise a bunch of dummies!
Shoe tie class or nose blowing as an elective anyone?
I stopped paying attention to Sanjay Gupta when during the swine flu scare he accidentally showed he was hoarding antivirals (I think it was Tamiflu back then that everyone was panicking about, right?) in his big duffel-bag “flu kit.” Way to talk the talk, then not walk the walk, “doc”!