{"id":571,"date":"2015-01-29T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T18:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/?p=571"},"modified":"2017-08-21T11:57:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T11:57:31","slug":"primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-md-radiation-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/2015\/01\/29\/primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-md-radiation-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"Primary Care Corner with Geoffrey Modest MD: Radiation exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By: Dr. Geoffrey Modest\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As many of you know from being exposed to my rantings, I am very concerned about excessive iatrogenic radiation exposure. (I believe exposure to my rantings are less toxic than the radiation).<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3859870\/\">article in JAMA<\/a>\u00a0looks at 6 integrated health care delivery systems with 1-2 millions people over 15 years. Effective doubling of radiation exposure in this period , esp with CT scans (increased 3-fold). Calculated anticipated 2% increased risk of cancer from this increased exposure (this may be an argument to dissuade some patients who seek a CT scan unnecessarily).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radiation exposure [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/2015\/01\/29\/primary-care-corner-with-geoffrey-modest-md-radiation-exposure\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14283],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/bmjebmspotlight\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}