Ahh well that’s just me. I don’t handle obtuse people who are confidently wrong very well, but I guess that makes me an obtuse idiot too. I have been doing that since before I ever heard of Reddit. I have seen 9GAG slide off into right wing extremism. You bet your ass I had some long-winded discussions there :)

Maybe you can check the current guidelines too and see that I’m not the one acting like he knows what’s up because “he has had a few X-rays in their time”…

LOL, why is it so hard to accept the fact that you’re wrong? Or that your information is outdated? Have you always been like that?

And I am “pushing for doctors of a fluoroscope”. WTF is this sentence?

Mate, a fluoroscopy is a type of X-ray-based exam where the doctor wears the garment. That is the indication for them, to protect other people in the room from scatter radiation coming off the patient at the time of the exam.

The lead shielding is in the X-ray machine itself. Not on the patient. Your information is outdated.

So again for the umpteenth time, next time they give you an apron tell them to properly collimate instead. Because lead aprons can actually increase your dose.

Ahhh yes, you have “lived” a bunch of X-rays and your wife works at a hospital. Tell me, is she a technologist at the radiology department? Or a radiologist? I doubt it. But if she is, maybe you can ask her what the current practices are.

You really don’t handle being wrong very well, do you?

But chatGPT is a good idea, maybe start by asking it some stuff and work your way up from there :)

If they did it was totally unnecessary, as I’ve told you many times over now. And the few X rays you’ve had are hardly proof now is it? Nor does it tell us what the current standards of care are.

Maybe in the past, but not anymore.

Yes. The patient isn’t supposed to wear a garment in general is what I said. Again, read please.

And “modern” is anything that was built in the last 50 years or so. So no, it’s not common practice to put lead garments on the patient and it’s simply a matter of the technologist being too lazy to collimate properly.

Mate, you really need to read better LOL, like I said in my first comment, it’s for fluoroscopy or X-ray assisted surgery

And the lead garment was bullshit as I have been telling you for a bunch of times now. Read up about x-ray machines and collimation before you accuse someone of not knowing what they’re talking about because you had an X-ray a few times xD

Guess they will now learn the true meaning of FAFO

Like I said, collimation is what’s key: if you don’t put other body parts into the beam there is no need to put lead on a patient. Lead garments don’t work for the patient. It only helps to protect others around them from radiation that’s scattered in the patient and coming out at different angles.

So next time they hand you one, ask them to properly collimate instead.

No, that’s what I said. They don’t

Lead garments are usually used to protect the doctors and technologists during fluoroscopy or x-ray guided therapy or surgery.

Collimation is what protects the areas that aren’t x-rayed in a patient.

Always has been (eager to get young people addicted)

Yeah, those data centers definitely must have employed like, three site managers each! So come to think about: hundreds and hundreds of (… okay a little over 100) people employed in all those centers combined. And all it took was to raise electricity prices by 25% for 350k people

I guess they’re in the FO part of FAFO. I really hope this kind of stuff wakes people up enough to do something about it.

“You load sixteen tons and what do you get?

Another day over and deeper in debt.”

A broken… Grok?