How often do you get an xray? How often does an xray tech perform an xray?
They are safe with the frequency a normal person is exposed to them. They are not as safe if you are spending your entire work day standing next to the machine.
I’m not a fan of memes that are predicated on a mischaracterization of medical practices as they can lead to people making uninformed and perilous decisions about their health. If your doctor recommends an xray, you probably need an xray.
How often do you get an xray?
You sound super fun to sit next to at a comedy show.
Chances are they are too polite to talk during the show
I like to think I am, though I’d probably leave a comment in the review if they were spreading medical misinformation on the name of comedy or freedom or something and I wasn’t expecting it going in.
“my doctor always makes me get vaccines but I never see him take one”
“my dentist recommends toothpaste with fluoride in it but she refuses to brush in front of me”
You realize that these kinds of statements are not comedy to the dumbest people you know - they’re bold realizations that the man really had been hiding some shit from you.
and then they elect Marjorie Taylor Greene. They elect Lauren Boebert. They elect Randy Fine.
Rather than “your tax dollars have been funding an apartheid state after its intelligence agency blackmailed a shitload of our oligarchs with pedophilia which is now doing a genocide as it, and those oligarchs, take away all possibility of using technology to communicate freely ever again in Fascist takeover of the western world”, these are the people who looked at that evidence and went “hurr durr Jews bad”
These are the people who said “Ivermectin for President!”
These are the people who said “ICE is doing what I would do”
These people are all around us, stop making them worse. They feed off disinformation in meme format because it’s all their feeble minds can process. Stop feeding them.
Do better.
Does that mean long-form text-based misinformation shitposts are okay?
Only when written as A Modest Proposal.
You sound like you got lost trying to go to a comedy show, ended up at the Mothership on Schaub night, and laughed because everyone else was laughing.
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One might say the effects are…
cumoolative
“They keep trying to convince me that skydiving is safe but the pilot always stays in the plane."
That guy, probably.
This is the same reason the bartender won’t do shots with you.
I get it. My dentist just isn’t into me either. Thanks for bringing it up.
Have you tried your local barista?
Honestly best explanation I’ve seen
Shots are bristling with ionizing radiation
Depends on the bartender…
One X-ray is fine, several a day is not.
Going to a bar and having a shot of booze won’t really harm you, but if you’re the bartender and have to have a shot every time a customer does, it will.
The dose makes the poison
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
with an LD50 exceeding 90,000 mg/kg (90 g/kg) body weight in rats; drinking six liters in three hours has caused the death of a human.
Have to remember that it’s not safe if you get it as often as the doctor gives it.
Ayup. To draw a parallel: One vial to take a blood sample is fiiiine.
You do several hundred and you dead
If you manage to do several hundred I’ll actually be a little impressed.
An occasional X-ray is safe. Multiple x-rays every single day isn’t.
The analogy I’ve always used is why your bartender would refuse you buying them a shot. Yeah, 1 shot for you ain’t much, but 25 guys a night buying them a shot would go south pretty fast
I’m an industrial radiographer and every year I have to have a rad medical. And every year the doctor asks if I’ve been busy and I say yes and they say “but your tld badge readings show you have had almost no exposure.”.
To which I reply, “that’s because I know where the radiation is and hide from it. If I were standing in front of the the ‘bomb’ I’d be dead instead of sat here.”They do it all day everyday. That would be bad over the years. Plus any unnecessary exposure to any additional radiation should just be avoided. If the patient had any other way of getting the same results im sure that would be the preferred method but its all we got and 1 dose is really nothing in the scheme of things.
I do remember a story long ago in the early days where someone got a faulty one and everytime they turned it on for xrays these people were hit with so much radiation they could taste it. Nobody believed them and it was so bad that side effects came quick enough to figure out this machine was faulty. If i find it ill link it here. Very interesting and awful situation.
Edit: found it the Therac-25 system. It sometimes became faulty and dosed people with 250 times the amount it should have. They swore up and down there is no way the system was faulty until it was finally proven to be it.
I just try to cover my gonads and step aside. It’s an exposure thing; I very well may be subjected to it several times per day… the patient (at most) several times per stay. Years vs days, it’s worth it to try and lessen the impact of exposure. I’m not being diagnosed. I’m just trying to help
This reminds me of the kinds of things my 1st grader and their friends find funny because of their incomplete understanding of the world. It’s cute kids, less cute when adults don’t know what “cumulative” means.
People generally aren’t very smart. Its why it’s so notable when someone’s smart.
They are the expections.
If you like drinking water so much, why wouldn’t you DRINK FIVE METRIC TONS OF IT RIGHT NOW
ITT: people explain the humorous cow picture meme unprompted
Poe’s law, this image can be and has been used by anti-science conspiracist.
Hey siri, what is cumulated exposure
