When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store

Re:When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store by joezydeco on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @09:42AM (#24980018)

My dad worked in a shoe store when he was in high school. His friends would goof around with the machine during slow periods. Thankfully my dad stayed away from the thing.

Many lost feet or parts of them, never making a connection back to the fluoroscope. Nobody knew how much radiation those things were actually putting out.

(Ironically or not, I now work in medical physics where even the slightest exposure gets noted and tracked)

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Re:When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store by deepspace on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @12:51PM (#24982013)

Wait a minute - so you are saying that having parts of your foot fall off was just considered part of the normal high school experience? Does not sound right to me - surely a rash of radiation burns among teenagers would have been noticed, even in those days.

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Re:When X-Rays were used at the Shoe Store by joezydeco on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @02:16PM (#24982920)

Some developed problems years down the road, this wasn't a Demon Core-class exposure situation.

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