Happy2Bhere
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Username: Happy2bhere
Post Number: 4197
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Sunday, June 19, 2011 - 06:55 pm: | 
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Long after questions were first raised about the overuse of powerful CT scans, hundreds of hospitals across the country needlessly exposed patients to radiation by scanning their chests twice on the same day, according to federal records and interviews with researchers.
By changing protocols, the percentage of double scans is now “hovering around 5 percent,”. “What that means for us is when a physician orders a scan from a radiology department, the radiologist begins to engage in a conversation with those physicians, talking about what might be a more reasonable and acceptable approach.”
Ol' Bob
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