Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Medical Tests - think twice
An article in the New York Times struck home with me today. It has to do with excess radiation exposure from CT scans, X-rays and other ionizing radiation from medical tests.Many patients think more is better when it comes to diagnostic testing. They request scans for headaches, backaches, new knee pain and screening total body scans "just to make sure I'm ok". Despite warnings that body scans
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CT scans,
excess radiation,
medical tests,
radiation exposure