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On its front page, the New York Times (7/31, A1, Bogdanich) reports that cases of radiation overdoses during CT brain perfusion scans, which “began to emerge late last summer, set off an investigation by the Food and Drug Administration into why patients tested with this complex yet lightly regulated technology were bombarded with excessive radiation.” But, “after 10 months, the agency has yet to provide a final report on what it found.” Now, “an examination by the New York Times has found that radiation overdoses were larger and more widespread than previously known, that patients have reported symptoms considerably more serious than losing their hair, and that experts say they may face long-term risks of cancer and brain damage,” as well as eye damage. The “review also offers insight into the way many of the overdoses occurred.”
Before undergoing a CT scan or any radiological procedure, you should speak to your doctor about the pros and cons of the procedure, and I encourage you to question the facility giving the test to be sure the doses of radiation are not excessive.
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Mr. Zambri is a Board-Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Past-President of the Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has been acknowledged by Washingtonian magazine as a “Big Gun” and among the “top 1%” of all of the more than 80,000 lawyers in the Washington metropolitan area. The magazine also acknowledged him as “one of Washington’s best–most honest and effective lawyers” who specializes in medical malpractice matters, product liability claims, and serious automobile accident claims. Mr. Zambri has also been repeatedly named a “Super Lawyer” by Law and Politics magazine (2010)–a national publication that honors the top lawyers in America.
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