To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 07:01:45 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Fw: radioactive subway riders
From: ronkean at juno.com
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v288n21/ffull/jlt1204-3.html

JAMA
Vol. 288 No. 21,
December 4, 2002

Police Detainment of a Patient Following Treatment With Radioactive
Iodine

To the Editor: We recently treated a 34-year-old man for Graves
disease with 20 mCi of iodine 131. Twenty-four hours after treatment,
his radioactive iodine uptake was 63%. Three weeks after treatment,
he returned to our clinic complaining that he had been strip-searched
twice at Manhattan subway stations. Police had identified him as
emitting radiation and had detained him for further questioning. He
returned to the clinic and requested a letter stating that he had
recently been treated with radioactive iodine.

This patient's experience indicates that radiation detection devices
are being installed in public places in New York City and perhaps
elsewhere. Patients who have been treated with radioactive iodine or
other isotopes may be identified and interrogated by the police
because of the radiation they emit.

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