UltragigagiganticThis won't hurt me a bit
Flying SquidSomeone needs to learn about cumulative effects.
HubertMannethanks. I was not sure how to respond to this. I suspect they understand that doctors or more likely the nurse or tech would be exposed to dozens of xrays a day instead of less than one a year but you never know.
lugalThis is the internet. You never know if people are serious and if they take you seriously and sometimes not even if you are serious yourself
Seriously?!
Donno
Is it cumulative?
Or is it probability — which of course goes up if you shower yourself in radiation multiple times a day?
It is cumulative.
Radiation is not a matter of chance, but a matter of how much.
Every day, your body will probably generate at least one cell that would be cancerous if it wasn’t for your immune system. If that probability goes up slightly as a result of mildly increased radiation that day, it likely won’t overload the immune system’s capacity to deal with it. If it is overexposed to radiation, eventually the greater probability of cancerous mutations exceeds the immune system’s capacity.
It’s probabilistic when it’s 1 particle at a time.
At these rates of exposure from radiation it becomes primarily cumulative because at some point it’s not a question of if you’ll damage some cells or not, it’s a question of if you’re damaging them faster than they can repair or not.
There’s still a probabilistic factor in when it leads to medically relevant damage and of what type, but it follows a pretty predictable scale dependent on prior dose
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆after the 4th opinion, and a leg grows out of your chest
“Couldn’t find any broken bones but we were alarmed to find a leg growing out of your chest.”
Sommeliers spit out the wine that they tell you to drink. Very suspicious. /s
This is such a dumb trope that keeps getting repeated in memes. Dosage size matters.
snooggumsI think 99% of the people sharing the meme understand it is a joke.
KingJalopy I think 99% of the commenters don’t
teftI think 99% of statistics are made up on the spot.
I think you’re 99% maybe right
Its a joke here because we don’t have an anti-vax community.
If this was Facebook, this meme would be sex and candy for that crowd.
I smell sex and candy, yeah?
Dig it.
I wanted to ask who was lounging in my chair, but you went straight to dig it T_T
I had to end it before it became a thing. We can’t have fun here.
ThunderWhiskersIt’s not a very good joke.
Jokes can still be dumb and unfunny.
Most dumb things are unfunny.
Sometimes seemingly dumb things are funny because they make you think a little bit and realize that it seems weird to someone who doesn’t understand the context. This one is actually clever because without knowing the context of cumulative effects would be confused by the tech hiding behind a safety shield while telling you it is safe. The humor requires seeing it from someone else’s perspective and having the knowledge of why it seems contradictory.
Hopefully…
Also we probably shouldn’t tell them about background radiation.
For the curious a chest X-ray is about 0.02 mSv where your annual dose from background is about 2.4mSv, but this easily can be twice this if you live at high altitude or in an area with a higher level of radioactive minerals. Or if you are very lucky somewhere where both are a problem.
Hell airline crews are classified as radiation workers because the higher doses of cosmic radiation puts them over the threshold of on job exposure .
People are upset when I throw a single pebble but when I throw a hand full they suddenly get really mad 🤷♀️
MxM111Someone needs to learn about cumulative grenade.
Cumulative WHAT?!?!
ZoidsbergSomeone needs to learn about jokes
This one doesn't work if you understand at even a basic level how x-rays and radiation work.
i understand and thought it was funny
It wasn’t a funny joke.
Hey man sorry I accused you of starting shit in that other thread.
No worries.
IninewCrowAlso doctors: … we’re not using an x-ray … Instead were giving you a CT scan, which will give you 50 to 70 times more radiation exposure than one x-ray.
Which isn’t very much
ChaoticNeutralCzechIt kind of helps to have a 3D image sometimes, especially if you can use radiation-shielding or radioactive substances to contrast veins or organs. They are rarely used for bones of course.
TonyTonyChopperFrom a comment above “a chest X-ray is about 0.02 mSv where your annual dose from background is about 2.4mSv, but this easily can be twice this if you live at high altitude or in an area with a higher level of radioactive minerals”
So you get a choice between half the radiation from existing on Earth for a year, and a high tech diagnostic image, or… die from whatever disease you might have?
If the medical outcome from better planning due to having the higher resolution image increases your survival chances enough then it compensates for the radiation exposure.
Dentists too!
*Rad techs/radiographers
Also. 1 x-ray no biggie. 10000 x-rays real shit.
starman2112Imagine you’re a bartender, and every time someone orders a shot, you have to throw one back too. One? Totally fine. Two? No problem. A hundred? You’re gonna want a plant (or a lead shield) to dump that shot (or radiation) in
DUMBASSThat’s what grenadine is for!
My friend, you have just revolutionized the field of radiology
Ahhh you know, just doing what I can to help wherever I can.
They stay back as much for radiation protection as for protection from screaming patients being twisted into pretzels for clearer shots of your scoliosis
Tbf they are taking a lot of X-rays throughout the day with multiple patients. You’re but just one of them.
And they give you a lead vest to cover Your balls, but nothing to cover your head.
Something Burger 🍔Gotta protect vital organs.
The_Cunt_of_Monte_CristoBecause X-ray can not penetrate bones?
But can it penetrate boners?
It depends how hard boners are.
Jojo, Lady of the WestWhat about squishy, juicy eyeballs? Or the back of your throat, for dental X-rays?
It’s actually really logical.
Your Balls constantly store and generate new DNA, which can easily be destroyed by X-Rays. Your Brain doesn’t really.
So your Balls are really vulnerable to X-Ray, while your brain isn’t
Also: where pee is stored. And we can’t be irradiating that, or have we so soon forgotten?
The last thing we want is a repeat of the Night of the Living Piss
Bones block x rays better than the thin skin around your nuts