Someone needs to learn about cumulative effects.
Sommeliers spit out the wine that they tell you to drink. Very suspicious. /s
This is such a dumb trope that keeps getting repeated in memes. Dosage size matters.
I think 99% of the people sharing the meme understand it is a joke.
Its a joke here because we don’t have an anti-vax community.
If this was Facebook, this meme would be sex and candy for that crowd.
I think 99% of the commenters don’t
I think 99% of statistics are made up on the spot.
I think you’re 99% maybe right
Jokes can still be dumb and unfunny.
Most dumb things are unfunny.
Sometimes seemingly dumb things are funny because they make you think a little bit and realize that it seems weird to someone who doesn’t understand the context. This one is actually clever because without knowing the context of cumulative effects would be confused by the tech hiding behind a safety shield while telling you it is safe. The humor requires seeing it from someone else’s perspective and having the knowledge of why it seems contradictory.
thanks. I was not sure how to respond to this. I suspect they understand that doctors or more likely the nurse or tech would be exposed to dozens of xrays a day instead of less than one a year but you never know.
This is the internet. You never know if people are serious and if they take you seriously and sometimes not even if you are serious yourself
true.
Seriously?!
Donno
Also we probably shouldn’t tell them about background radiation.
For the curious a chest X-ray is about 0.02 mSv where your annual dose from background is about 2.4mSv, but this easily can be twice this if you live at high altitude or in an area with a higher level of radioactive minerals. Or if you are very lucky somewhere where both are a problem.
Hell airline crews are classified as radiation workers because the higher doses of cosmic radiation puts them over the threshold of on job exposure .
after the 4th opinion, and a leg grows out of your chest
“Couldn’t find any broken bones but we were alarmed to find a leg growing out of your chest.”
People are upset when I throw a single pebble but when I throw a hand full they suddenly get really mad 🤷♀️
Hey man sorry I accused you of starting shit in that other thread.
No worries.
Someone needs to learn about cumulative grenade.
Cumulative WHAT?!?!
Someone needs to learn about jokes
This one doesn’t work if you understand at even a basic level how x-rays and radiation work.
i understand and thought it was funny
Same
It wasn’t a funny joke.
Imagine you’re a bartender, and every time someone orders a shot, you have to take one too. One? Totally fine. Two? No problem. A hundred? You’re gonna want a bucket (or a lead shield) to dump that shot (or radiation) in
That’s what grenadine is for!
My friend, you have just revolutionized the field of radiology
Ahhh you know, just doing what I can to help wherever I can.
And they give you a lead vest to cover Your balls, but nothing to cover your head.
Gotta protect vital organs.
Priorities!
Think of the children!
I recently got my hips xrayed and I got zero protection for the boys.
Because X-ray can not penetrate bones?
But can it penetrate boners?
It depends how hard boners are.
They stay back as much for radiation protection as for protection from screaming patients being twisted into pretzels for clearer shots of your scoliosis
everyone has already covered the obvious here, but another important protocol for dealing with radiation, particularly the spicy kind. Is to incur as low a cost of exposure as possible. I.E. if you don’t need to be in front of the spicy particles. Don’t be.
Dentists too!
It’s all fun and games until they yell “fire in the hole!”
Also doctors: … we’re not using an x-ray … Instead we’re giving you a CT scan, which will give you 50 to 70 times more radiation exposure than one x-ray.
Which isn’t very much
It kind of helps to have a 3D image sometimes, especially if you can use radiation-shielding or radioactive substances to contrast veins or organs. They are rarely used for bones of course.
If the medical outcome from better planning due to having the higher resolution image increases your survival chances enough then it compensates for the radiation exposure.
Like say, the medical outcome of bleeding out internally vs being saved because the scan showed the doctors where the bleeding is.
Being a radiation free corpse doesn’t sound great to me
https://www.health.harvard.edu/cancer/radiation-risk-from-medical-imaging