Caregivers generally keep track of how much radiation patients get, and even those limits are quite conservative/safe. And like others said, it’s very much one of those things where “a little is like standing out in the sun, a thousand times that is not.”
Modern X-ray machines give much smaller doses (for the same type of scan) than older ones.
I have a retired radiologist in the family, and the lead aprons and other protective things were hard on their back (among other things). They’re still dealing with it. And yet, family still worried about how much radiation they were exposed to. So… yeah, I have some respect for that job hazard.
Additionally a patient may get at most a few doses per year whereas the practitioner is potentially giving X-rays many times a day.
If you go to a bar and take a shot you’ll be fine, if the bartender has to take a shot with everybody who does that he’ll die.
Oh yeah? Explain this. In media x’s are often used to depict dead people and it’s called an x ray. So basically it’s a death ray.
Proof:
Excellent analogy
1 xray isn’t harmful, 1000 xrays are. The staff are there for many 1000s of xrays each every year.
If you cant absorb 1000 xrays are you even a man?
No, you’re a mutated zombie at that point. Who’s asking?
If you can absorb x Rays you’re probably lead
And if you have enough lead inside you that you absorb X-rays, you’re probably dead.
Iron Man should have had a nemesis called Lead Man.
And if you have enough dead inside you that you absorb X-rays, you’re probably lead.
A sufficient quantity of water will do it as well, no? Just need to gain 6^3 M to 8^3 M of water weight.
I’m wondering about the original source of this picture. Those man buns are certainly… manly?
(I’m talking about the hair here.)
Do the staff wear dosimeters to make sure they aren’t exposed to too much radiation?
Dosimeters are there to warn about a short-term cumulative dose, such as a malfunction of the system that releases an unusual amount of radiation in just a few minutes. They don’t report cumulative exposure over multiple weeks, months, or years.
Sure they can. Regular hospitals may not use them, but nuclear pharmacies implement, among other measurements, thermoluminescent dosimeter rings and badges that are sent in to be measured monthly or quarterly to provide a cumulative radiation exposure estimate. And if your measurements pass a certain threshold, you’re not allowed to work until enough time has passed that you’re no longer over the acceptable radiation rate.
The x-ray staff do but most hospital staff don’t.
There’s a big difference if you’re shooting x-rays on patients 8 hours per day, 2000 hours per year, vs. going in and getting one X-ray every once in a while.
So it depends on how much you’re exposed?
Yes
Well when you’re a tech that’s performing like 900 xrays a week, you probably would want to limit your exposure.
I bet all the people here ignoring the funny to give the same explanation feel very smart today
We’re in a world where no small part of the population bases their conception of reality off these memes so having the truth at least in the comments at the very least helps a little with the whole conspiracy theorist tin foil hat insanity going on out there.
Reality has always been a meme. A self replicating idea that controls people to spread itself. It’s no surprise that reality now exists online. The mind virus has adapted itself into a computer virus.
Honestly with how prevalent misinformation is these days I’m glad it’s the top comment
Most of it is we see this so often it isn’t really funny anymore, plus recent trends have lowered our faith that someone is making a tired and actually knows that the joke is wrong. It’s really better to explain things just in case.
Don’t ask hospitals what a CT Scan is.
Spinny X-ray tube!
