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Playing Games with Radiation..............
Patients and their
Doctors have a right to obtain accurate X-ray dosage information
recorded directly from the applied radiation at the time of exposure..
Madame Marie Curie's curiosity about radiation killed her, but her discoveries of radium and radioactivity made playing the game worth it for the world of science. A human sacrifice. At the turn of the last century, X-rays were hot, in more ways than one, but nobody knew this until horrible things started happening. Can you imagine how Thomas Edison felt when he learned about X-rays? "Hey! This is great stuff, let's make X-ray machines. Clarence, put your hand in front of the X-ray tube and we'll demonstrate how you can see the insides of the human body." Edison's assistant, Clarence Madison Dally, died after first losing his hands and then having his arms amputated from the effects of X-rays. After Edison's eyesight was impaired by radiation, he never permitted anybody to use X-rays on him again. Playing games with X-rays meant people were dying, losing fingers and and getting burned.
The new science of radiology was born, but the
radiologists decided that they did not want to dissolve into a
mushy mass of disintegrating human tissue, the solution was to
wear body armor resembling that of King Arthur's knights. As time
went by, more harmful things occurred.
After prolonged X-ray
exposures, the tongue of this patient ulcerated, bled and cracked
progressing through a prolonged healing of diminishing symptoms
until only the 
gouged
scars from the tissue destroying radiation remained as visible
evidence.
Dentists began losing
thumbs and fingers from holding film in patients' mouths. Nobody
really wanted to give up playing games with X-rays. Cosmeticians
applied X-rays to enhance womens' appearance by
removing facial hairs . Dr. Albert C. Geyser, M.D., Professor of
Physiological Therapy, Fordham University`and Chief of the
Electro and Roentgenray Clinic at Cornell College developed the
X-ray hair removal system to prevent women from resorting to
"futile, dangerous and injurious means of removing
disfiguring superfluous hair." 
The treatments resulted in
wrinkling atrophy, keratoses, ulcerations, carcinoma, and death.
Most victims were young women (really aged) from 18 to 30 years.
Throughout medical history, doctors have gained credibility with
the public and the medical profession by lecturing and training
other doctors in the wonders of misconceived practices. They never
look back. The disasters of medical history are admitted infrequently
and with reluctance. "We don't do that any more," is the
closest to an admission of past mistakes. Recently, a radiologist
stated to an X-ray engineer, "We kill more people than we
save."
Meanwhile, kids watched their toes wiggle in their shoes through the use of shoe fitting X-ray machines. At the same time, doctors were burning out childrens' tonsils, and dermatologists were drying up acne using X-rays. Everything was fine according to the professionals...until, people started developing cancers and dying. Well, the excuses and game playing have been going on ever since the discovery of X-rays..."no it can't hurt you." Remember all the X-ray devices and methods that couldn't harm anybody? Let's cite a recent example. A dentist became aware that by not heeding several patients' advice against prolonging exposures to the whole head and eyes of an X-ray sensitive patient, he would place the patient's health at risk. Yet, during a moment of impulsive anger, termed by the patient as RAD RAGE, this dentist duplicated the dangerous method of exposure: thus, turning the clock back a century. (SOUND AND FURY page). What a shock when he found out what he had done by playing games with his x-ray machine. Fair complexioned people medicated with antibiotics may be especially radiosensitive. Radiosensitivity increases as a result of many factors such as a previous exposure history, age, complexion, drug usage and even emotional stress causing changes in oxygen levels within the cells. While watching local t.v., the irradiated patient viewed a concerned dentist speaking about the use of X-rays. He appeared on the screen stating that he does not administer X-rays because any X-ray does harm. This was the judgment of a convention of world renowned scientists, reiterating that ionizing radiation does damage at all levels. Of course this concept cannot be accepted by the X-ray machine manufacturers, film makers, radiation professionals and the whole network composing the radiation lobby. Their attitute toward victims might well be expressed as, "Fry 'em, Try 'em, and Buy 'em." As one scientist said to a burned patient, "They're murdering you and you can't do anything about it."
Sites of interest:
PREVENTING BREAST CANCER, book, Dr.John Gofman, M.D. Ph.D. Prof. U.of Calif http://www.ratical.com/radiation/CNR/PBC/index.html
FDA Warning: Avoidance of serious X-RAY INDUCED SKIN INJURIES..... . http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/fluor.html
Dr. Frank Fields, "Dentistry Without X-rays" UPN News, (possibly in Health Video Archive by the time you read this) http://www.wwortv.com/news/medical/index.asp
*Ionizing radiation is radiation that creates charged particles by using high energy to remove electrons from their orbits around the nucleus of an atom. The electron becomes a positively charged ion and the atom's nucleus takes on a negative charge. Unfortunately, this destabilization of a neutral harmony between the electron and the nucleus of the atom creates havoc in living organisms. Water (H2O) within animal cells is converted to hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). The tissues begin to hemorrhage, ulcerate and crack as their fabric disintegrates. Changes involving the molecular structure of DNA codes offer the potential of producing cancers. The double strands of the DNA helix are often broken by radiation. With the knowledge of the human genome, it becomes even more apparent that changing code instructions for human cell growth is gambling with the fundamentals of life. If a sufficiently great portion of the atomic structure within your tissues has been ionized, you are going to die. Every individual has a different threshold. That is why the government uses the LD50 term, lethal dose for 50% of the population. LD2% of the population would apply to the people most sensitive to ionizing radiation exposure. LD98% of the population would be a dose that kills just about everybody. Atomic science and medical science are partners in dealing out death through ionizing radiation.
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