Hospital Glitch Gives Patients 8x Radiation Dosage

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]lvlouro[/nom]+1what the hell were they thinking, who goes and overrides a ct scanner... I bet they didn't even contact the manufacturer[/citation]
Well, I know, anytime we try to get a company to fix one of their parts, it's cheaper to buy a new one and will take months...
Sometimes you just have to get shit done.

 

[cookoy]

RTFM before re-programming anything! LOL if they send additional 7x more billing to the 206 patients. They don't have separate instruments to measure the radiation levels independent of the CT scan's indicators just to cross-check?

 

[Guest]

This is Reminiscent of the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine that gave massive overdoses to 6 patients and killing 3 of them between 1985 and 1987.

 

[xrodney]

[citation][nom]kami3k[/nom]why should they, you shouldn't be overriding settings. Common sense. Just like the Soviet engineers shouldn't have turned off the coolant to a certain nuclear reactor then stress it.[/citation]
Oh well i think problem with that reactor was not insufficient cooling, but pure stupidity as they bring reaction under sustainable level and then try to keep it going by removing regulating bars. And on some point reaction started again but exponentialy causing meltdown inside of reactor. What they should do is let reactor fully stop and then restart it again.

 

[Guest]

Should have kept the manual.

 

[JohnnyLucky]

Well, the hospital did contact other patients once they finally discovered what happened.

 

[Miharu]

It's not the first case and it's not the last one.

 

[urlsen]

[citation][nom]soul555top[/nom]All you people are wrong. This has nothing to do with the doctors, nurses, technicians, or the hospital. Nor does it have to do with our current or future healthcare state. This has to do with radiation. Ban radiation. Also, ban hair, that way you cant lose it.Hopefully the people who suffered are ok and this is actually a serious problem, compared to "KID SET ON FIRE OVER VIDEO GAME" or "STARCRAFT CAUSES KID TO STAB RANDOM KID". Also, ban Starcraft and fires, and knives.[/citation]

He he remember to also ban Fire, videoes, kids and whatever
makes life fun...

 

[solymnar]

[citation][nom]pronuke[/nom]Wow, the ignorance in the comments for this story is astounding. Yes a mistake was made, yes there is the potential for serious consequences of this mistake, but in reality the radiation doses received by these individuals will most like not end up causing any permanent damage or meaningfully impact the rest of their lives.The truth is, the human body can take quite a lot of radiation in a single dose and recover with almost no adverse consequences long term. Most of you dont even realize that the elements you're made out of are radioactive and give you a constant dose. I work around radiation everyday, but so does everyone on the planet![/citation]

/sigh

Yes, we all work around radiation, our cell phones, and blah blah blah.

There is a BIG difference in the TYPE of radiation you are exposed to and how large of an area is exposed to it.

Broad region radiation strong enough to fry hair off your head is also penetrating and beating the crap out of your DNA.

Now...maybe all those mutated cells will die (like they are supposed to) and everyone walks away skipping and jumping.

But all those people just had their chances of having a surviving cell mutate closer towards a cancer cell increase by a pretty large degree. Not exactly a fuzzy warm feeling.

 

[zambutu]

i dunno, i understood that a CAT scan is a 200x radiation dosage over an xray. I didn't feel anything, but then they weren't shooting my brain. It was really cool to see my innards though..

 

[Shadow703793]

WTF? People can sue for some random cr@p and still no law suites for this?!?!????

 

[spectrewind]

[citation][nom]doomtomb[/nom]This is pretty terrifying. Someone needs to be fired.[/citation]

As well as put in prision. This is criminal.

 

[spectrewind]

[citation][nom]chainsaw667[/nom]The health care situation in America is fine and needs no over site, as this case clearly points out. Doctors have to ask bureaucrats to approve a treatment, pills with several times the active ingredient, medications rushed through testing only to be pulled three years after release when the body count starts rising, and insurance companies committing serial murders by refusing treatments that are considered experimental ten years into use. It isn't the cheapest, it isn't even the best but it is highly profitable.People be damned give us the money, the new health care motto on the states.[/citation]

Sarcastic, yes. But also the truth.

 

[spectrewind]

[citation][nom]the_one111[/nom]Epic huge law suit anyone?[/citation]

I can easily envision this hospital being shutdown and some doctors and board of directors people put in prison over this.

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

My friend Bruce Banner was part of that group. I hope he is ok.

 

[Camikazi]

[citation][nom]bill gates is your daddy[/nom]My friend Bruce Banner was part of that group. I hope he is ok.[/citation]
He is fine, just don't anger him, you won't like him when he's angry.

 

[yang]

radiation poisoning is a very scary thing. for once, I hope the victims sue the hell out of the people responsible. I highly doubt even the money will help them cope with this.

 

[enforcer22]

[citation][nom]croc[/nom]There are two homonyms for 'there'. They're and their. You've managed to get it wrong twice in one sentence.[/citation]


why cant i go through one thread with out seeing some idiot post this crap and some moron post something about how obama's health care is going to blow up the world.. get a freaking life.

Someone please get the tracter to help this poor little man get the giant stick out of his ass.

 

[Ryric]

With the hospital admitting their error I would suspect no lawsuit has been filed because they are working to settle this quickly. They know they screwed up in such a way that they are in a lot of trouble.

Honestly not working with the machines I don't know but I feel like someone should have seen the radiation levels and been like...hmmm thats awfully high let me ask a doctor what a toxic level is!


And good god to do it to some 200+ people is just terrible. As mentioned radiation poisioning is terrifying, and while they said the median age was 70 I hope no one younger was involved because to have to suffer the long term effects radiation poisioning due to a hospital error is unimagineable.