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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on December 20, 2006, 11:07:55 am ---His major is nursing. The C was in Anatomy and Physiology, where apparently an A is unheard of, a few geniuses get a B, and everyone else gets Cs and Fs. This is the class that separates the men from the boys, as it were.
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Sounds real good, then! Nice that he wants to go into the family profession. ;D
YaadPyar:
David - thought you might find this interesting!!!
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Baby is sent through X-ray machine at LAX
By Jennifer Oldham
Times Staff Writer
December 20, 2006
A woman going through security at Los Angeles International Airport put her month-old grandson into a plastic bin intended for carry-on items and slid it into an X-ray machine.
The early Saturday accident — bizarre but not unprecedented — caught airport workers by surprise, even though the security line was not busy at the time, officials said.
A screener watching the machine's monitor immediately noticed the outline of a baby and pulled the bin backward on the conveyor belt.
The infant was taken to Centinela Hospital, where doctors determined that he had not received a dangerous dose of radiation. Officials, who declined to release the 56-year-old woman's name, said she spoke Spanish and apparently did not understand English.
The rare incident drew attention to whether officials are staffing often-busy security checkpoints enough to prevent such an accident. And it raised questions about the danger of X-rays used to pick out suspicious metal shapes in passenger bags, given the medical community's warnings that even low amounts of radiation can build up over a lifetime.
"Rather than focus on the radiation dose, which is a small amount, we need to focus on why this happened, so it doesn't happen again," said Dr. James Borgstede, a diagnostic radiologist at Penrose-St. Francis Health Systems in Colorado Springs, Colo., and president of the American College of Radiology. "Human beings weren't meant to go through those things."
In the several seconds the baby spent in the machine, the doctor added, he was exposed to as much radiation as he would naturally get from cosmic rays — or high energy from outer space — in a day.
David:
Yup. It has happened before. Not at my airport, but elsewhere. Why would a parent do that?
More common are pets getting x-rayed. People put the pet carriers down and turn to get their carry-on bags and before they know it, the carrier is moving down the belt into the x-ray machine!
As the story above noted, the Radiation hazzard is small. You get more radiation each time your Dentist takes X-rays of your teeth.
In the baggage drop area we have these huge X-ray machines. A former TSA employee rode thru it once to get a full body x-ray. He was terminated before the day was over! A one time trip thru wont hurt you, but they are worried about multiple trips thru. Thats why they don't allow it. I can't imagine it is any more harmful than a CT Scan you get in the Hospital.
RouxB:
I don't think it's supposed to be 38 degrees in Santa Barbara CA!
I want a rebate on my rent.
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Kelda:
--- Quote from: YaadPyar on December 20, 2006, 01:34:48 pm ---David - thought you might find this interesting!!!
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Baby is sent through X-ray machine at LAX
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nice to see you frequenting Tremblay C! and OMG - that is madness.. whay the hell did she think she had to do that!?
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