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.
Tbf they are taking a lot of X-rays throughout the day with multiple patients. You’re but just one of them.
Eat one meatball sub and you’re fine.
Eat 20 meatball subs a day, 5 days a week, for your entire professional career? Not medically advisable.
You’re not the boss of me!
I just said medically advisable, I fully support your right to eat as many meatball subs as you feel is right for you.
*Rad techs/radiographers
Also. 1 x-ray no biggie. 10000 x-rays real shit.
Cause for you its probably your only xray for that year.
For the doctor its probably the 50th, of 500, that day.
So they go behind shielding to protect themselves from their massively higher than yours exposure.
So you’re saying it’ll hurt you a bit. But as long as it’s not a ton of bits it doesn’t really matter.
Exactly
And they give you a lead vest to cover Your balls, but nothing to cover your head.
It’s actually really logical.
Your Balls constantly store and generate new DNA, which can easily be destroyed by X-Rays. Your Brain doesn’t really.
So your Balls are really vulnerable to X-Ray, while your brain isn’t
Also: where pee is stored. And we can’t be irradiating that, or have we so soon forgotten?
The last thing we want is a repeat of the Night of the Living Piss
Gotta protect vital organs.
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Think of the children!
Bones block x rays better than the thin skin around your nuts
That’s why I had a scrotal bone installed. Pure lead. My balls is like Magneto down there.
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.
What about squishy, juicy eyeballs? Or the back of your throat, for dental X-rays?
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.
I do believe this is the most ironing boards I’ve seen in one picture (that doesn’t have to do with ironing boards).
I was unaware they are apparently sought after for cover?
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.
From a comment above “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”
So you get a choice between half the radiation from existing on Earth for a year, and a high tech diagnostic image, or… die from whatever disease you might have?
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
