Dr. Lee Martin Junior, president of the Gainesville Radiology Group, said doctors locally are taking steps toward safety.
"There is a concern," Dr. Martin said. "We have talked about it in Radiation Safety Committee."
"We have just recently got new machines that have what's called a 'smart' MAS, it's a machine that decreases the radiation dose in an automatic way to where there's not too much radiation dose given," Martin added.
According to national reports, overzealous doctors who order unnecessary body scans or CAT scans that use are placing their patients at risk of cancer.
Radiologist Thomas Dehn, chief medical officer with Magellan Health's National Imaging Associates, says that there is numerous reasons why CT scans are ordered unnecessarily.
Doctors are often pressed for time and use the technology as a shortcut, he says, and patients sometimes demand the extra reassurance that a scan can give
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