Government run health care

[Lady's Human]

The techs are behind lead shielding because they would recieve many times beyond the PEL or TLV through a day of work were the shielding not in place.

The person getting the mammogram does it once a year (if that)

Your rough dose of radiation from natural backgraound sources is roughly 350 millirems, depending on lifestyle.

A mammogram exposes you to 70 millirems. Given that, the level of exposure is comparatively minimal.

The person doing the mammogram does it repeatedly throughout the day, day after day, year after year.

As radiation damage is cumulative, they need the shielding.

[blue]

Health Care is not a Right. Health Care is a service.

Freedom of Speech is a Right, not a service. The Right to protect your self, ala the 2nd Amendment, is not a service.

Sparks and LH should be ashamed of themselves for bringing logic and real life experience into a purely emotional argument.

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[Edwina's Secretary]

The techs are behind lead shielding because they would recieve many times beyond the PEL or TLV through a day of work were the shielding not in place.

The person doing the mammogram does it repeatedly throughout the day, day after day, year after year.

As radiation damage is cumulative, they need the shielding.

Gosh LH...Think I might have said that tongue in cheek?

But...first - annual mammograms have not been around long enough to know conclusively the effects of the exposure.

And...I am not sure how many mammograms you have had (joking again! ) but earlier this year I had a "positive" mammogram. So back I went. For TWO HOURS I was pulled, pushed and repositioned. "Now put your left leg over your right ear"....etc...etc. They could not "see" anything. But I was to go back in six months. Again I did. And again I was pushed and pulled. And again they could not "see" anything.

They tell me I should go again in four months. I highly doubt I will do so. At this point I feel they are trying to prove they were right.

So in less than a year I have had over two decades of "once a year if that" exposure.

And a false positive.

And all those millirems concentrated in one part of my body - unlike what I receive enviornmentally.

I lost an aunt to breast cancer and one grandmother had breast cancer.

But I still think for myself. And decide for myself. And I don't listen to lay people who try to stir up hysteria by misreporting studies for their own political agenda.

[Lady's Human]

As opposed to stirring up hysteria by passing on junk science to promote their own political agenda?

Or as opposed to stirring up hysteria by playing on emotion and ignoring logic to promote their own political agenda?

[Edwina's Secretary]

As opposed to stirring up hysteria by passing on junk science to promote their own political agenda?

Or as opposed to stirring up hysteria by playing on emotion and ignoring logic to promote their own political agenda?

Yes.

Having a bad day?

[cassiesmom]

Dr. Rob, physician and musician, on health care reform...

Read the entire poem at http://distractible.org/2009/10/04/seuss-was-a-doctor/

A plan that is public creates great distress,
Just growing the government won’t fix this mess!
Absolute power just leads to excess!
(But what’s their alternative’s anyone’s guess)

The patients are now in the poorest condition
We’ve put them all into this dreadful position
Ignoring the help of those greedy physicians
And trusting their health to those smart politicians

[Edwina's Secretary]

I am very sorry, Cassiemom, that you felt you had to delete your post.

Don't feed the bullies!