A Pinpoint Beam Strays Invisibly, Harming Instead of Healing
NY Times Link (Very good story, be careful.)
By WALT BOGDANICH and KRISTINA REBELO
The initial accident report offered few details, except to say that an
unidentified hospital had administered radiation overdoses to three patients
during identical medical procedures.
It was not until many months later that the full import of what had happened
in the hospital last year began to surface in urgent nationwide warnings, which
advised doctors to be extra vigilant when using a particular device that
delivers high-intensity, pinpoint radiation to vulnerable parts of the body.
Marci Faber was one of the three patients. She had gone to Evanston Hospital
in Illinois seeking treatment for pain emanating from a nerve deep inside her
head. Today, she is in a nursing home, nearly comatose, unable to speak, eat or
walk, leaving her husband to care for their three young daughters.
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