The great terrorist threat

[fafalone]

The airlines have decided to detain and search old ladies in wheel chairs when they set off the alarm, also little children. Now the latest group of people who are potentital terrorists in the eye of the law are people with cancer. New radiation detectors in NYC subways are triggered by people receiving chemotherapy, who are then detained and strip searched by police. The person in the article, for those without access, had received 20 milliCuries of iodine-131. Once again, good job.

 

The story appears in this weeks Journal of the American Medical Association:

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