Very surprising since Cedar Sinai is supposedly one of the best hospitals to go to. Question, was this high dose of radiation given to people who had brain scans or any kind of scan. My cousin has had a few CT Scans at Ceder Sinai. I don’t know how it could have gone on for so long without anyone detecting something was wrong
One possibility: missing filter (attenuator) at the head end. And it's a hassle to have to mess with that calibration thingy.
Mistakes happen at *all* hospitals...even the best ones.I worked for 20+ years at the largest,and most famous,of Harvard's teaching hospitals and there *were* mistakes made.One resulted in the family of one of the victims of our mistakes picketing in front of the hospital for about a week carrying signs saying "This Hospital Killed Our Mother".And the fact of the matter is that they were right.
Yeah, good question. For what it’s worth, the radiation level used in head scans is about one fourth of that used in abdominal scans. http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmittingProductsandProcedures/MedicalImaging/MedicalX-Rays/ucm115329.htm