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Friday, December 06, 2002
Bushtapo
Do you have State Permission to Glow in The Dark Comrade ?
From: "Bill Brumbaugh" proactive@theglobal.net
To: "Proactivelist" Proactivelist@talklist.com
Subject: Police Detainment of a Patient Following Treatment With Radioactive Iodine
Date sent: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 19:07:25 -0700
----- Original Message ----- From: "Aerielle Louise" aergo@earthlink.net
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 5:53 PM Subject: Police Detainment of a
Patient Following Treatment With Radioactive Iodine
This is so absurd. The hot-shots can't find the supposed siut-case bombs
or other "dirty" stuff in this country - but - they can
harrass some un-well citizen unfortunate enough to have to use public
transportation.
Police Detainment of a Patient Following Treatment With Radioactive Iodine
So now even high school drop out airport screeners gain access to
passengers medical info. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
Source: JAMA http://jama.ama-assn.org/
Vol. 288 No. 21, December 4, 2002
Police Detainment of a Patient Following Treatment With Radioactive Iodine
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v288n21/ffull/jlt1204-3.html
To the Editor: We recently treated a 34-year-old man for Graves disease
with 20 mCi of iodine 131. Twenty-four hours after treatment, his
radioactive iodine uptake was 63%. Three weeks after treatment, he
returned to our clinic complaining that he had been strip-searched twice
at Manhattan subway stations. Police had identified him as emitting
radiation and had detained him for further questioning. He returned to the
clinic and requested a letter stating that he had recently been treated
with radioactive iodine.
This patient's experience indicates that radiation detection devices are
being installed in public places in New York City and perhaps elsewhere.
Patients who have been treated with radioactive iodine or other isotopes
may be identified and interrogated by the police because of the radiation
they emit.
We called the Terrorism Task Force of the New York City Police Department
to determine how to prevent detainment of this group of patients. They
recommended that treating physicians provide such patients with letters
describing the isotope used and its dose, its biological half-life, and
the date and time of treatment. The letters should also provide the
physician's 24-hour telephone numbers to allow the police to verify the
content of the letters. If a person who has been detected as emitting
radiation provides such a letter, the police would then verify the
letter's authenticity. Even in the best-case scenario, however, the
patient would have to wait during this verification process. Patients
should be informed about this potential problem after treatment with
radioactive isotopes; they may choose not to use public transportation to
avoid this inconvenience.
Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD Martin I. Surks, MD Department of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, NY
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