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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1979-08-16, Page 24PAGE 6A-GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 1979 X- rays can mean danger BY JACK RIDDELL M.P.P. There has been con- siderable controversy on the subject of X-rays since a team of three physicists end an engineer released a report stating that ex- cessive radiation from X- ray machines causes some 20 cases of leukemia in Ontario each year. This is a statistical estimate based on preliminary findings in a survey of 20 hospitals during 1977 and 1978, which show that some five percent of hospital X- ray machines emit ex- ceptionally high doses of radiation because they are not adjusted properly. During debate on this disclosure, we learned that no certification is needed in Ontario to permit a doctor, dentist or chiropractor to establish and run an X- ray clinic. ° Such cer- tification to guarantee that.patients are properly . cared for, is issued by the Ontario Medical Association on a volun- tary basis only, and apparently of a total of 686 hospital and medical premises using X-ray equipment, only 207 have volunteered for cer- tification. IP We also learned that fewer than . one-third of the Ministry of Health's own X-ray • equipment operators working in chest clinics around the province.' are registered ,radiological technicians.._ There was considerable concern about a 1973 Health Ministry report, on which no government action had been taken, which warned that chiropractors, • Wild- "- owned their own equipment administered an excessive number of X-rays and recom- mended that they no longer be able to claim from OHIP for X-rays,. but instead be allowed to refer patients to radiologists. A spokesman for Ontario chiropractors stated, at a press con- ference, that it wouldbe a big mistake to ban such X-rays which are a_ necessary diagnostic tool. He said that chiropractors receive; about 450 hours of classroom and on-the-job instruction in the use of these machines during the four year course offered by the Canadian Memorial ' Chiropractic College in Toronto. The controversy about X-rays is not confined to On.tario:.A professor of the Harvard Medical School sounded the alarm in the June issue of the New England Journal of • Medicine. He stated that it's sometimes easier.for doctors to order.. X-rays than think; that radiologists take too many pictures during X- rays of the kidney, spine, heart and skull; that follow-up films for a healed duodenal ulcer are often unjustified; that it is ludicrous for _. some hospitals to take daily X- rays to follow the course of pneumonia; that 38 percent of 'patients having routine chest films for admission to hospital had already had one taken 'earlier that year. There were other problem areas. For in- stance, 50 percent of U.S. technologists did not meet the standards of their professional society, and some 27 million repeat X-rays had to be taken because films were either too dark or too light, or the patient had .been .positioned the wrong way. He concluded that poorly trained technicians. were one of the major problems in the U.S. medical world. In the midst of the present controversy in Ontario, thetwo radiation experts wild ;originally Turn to page 7A Prices effective thru Saturday, August 18th, 1979. We reserve the right to limit quantities to normal family. requirements! WE REDEEM ALL FOOD STORE COUPONS! SAVE 36A Process Cheese Slices, Single Thins BLACK DIAMOND 16 -oz pkg 49 Our Regular Price 1.85 eill111111 °3" SAVE 88€ A&P, Fancy TOMATO JUICE 48 -fl -oz tin 3X49 for Our Regular Price 79c ea. YOU'LL DO o better .WITH A&P'S._... grocery products Capri,, Assorted Colours THROOM TISSUE pkg of 6 rolls T SAVE 61¢ Light Chunks BYE THE -SEA TUNA 6.5 -oz tin for Our Regular Price 1.05 ea. Action Price! 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