As a Nuclear Medicine physician, I would provide you with a letter/documentation stating that you had received a radiopharmaceutical for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, the description of the radionuclide including the physical half life and estimated biological half-life (it may clear from your body before it would physically decay away), the exact date and time of administration, and my card and phone number to contact me for any questions. There would be no disclosure of why you received the radiopharmaceutical.
Yes your medical history is private, but you lose that privilege if you can potentially cause harm to others. For example, if I administer 200 mCi of Iodine-131 (half life 8 days, gamma and beta rays)to a patient for recurrent thyroid cancer, and he agrees to stay at home alone for over a week, yet instead he hops on a cross-country bus sitting hours and hours next to a pregnant lady and small children, then both he and I would be considered irresponsible in protecting the public from unnecessary radiation exposure.
I lived in the Philippines for the past 5 years, so I actually watched this technology reach the masses. Most of the posters here have no cultural clue of why this technology exploded the way that it did. It's a matter of economics.
Manila is a densely populated city, with a very poor telephone structure (i.e. difficult for the masses to phone, internet, email, voicemail, answering machines). Hence the popularity of cell phones in general. But how can they all afford it? Because, unlike in the U.S., you DON'T have to pay to RECIEVE a cell call in the Philippines. So "texting" became popular because, in this traffic-congested city where it can take you 2 hours to go 2 miles by car, everyone can communicate with each other for a flat monthly rate. That's it. Simple as that. You have to understand the culture too.
Incidently, when I was there I had operater-assisted text paging for $7/month. When I came back to the U.S., I was expecting the same. But employing an operator in the U.S. is a heck of a lot more expensive, but making phone calls is easy and inexpensive in the U.S. so that is why we all live on voice mail instead. I got my operator-assisted text paging, but it was expensive, and no one ever used it.
One more thing: to set another slashdot poster straight: it was Globe Telecom, not Smart, who started the whole texting thing. And recently they were in legal battles because they wouldn't share their texting network with other companies (i.e. everyone who wanted to "text" had to sign up with Globe). Kind of like AOL's IM.
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As a Nuclear Medicine physician, I would provide you with a letter/documentation stating that you had received a radiopharmaceutical for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, the description of the radionuclide including the physical half life and estimated biological half-life (it may clear from your body before it would physically decay away), the exact date and time of administration, and my card and phone number to contact me for any questions. There would be no disclosure of why you received the radiopharmaceutical.
Yes your medical history is private, but you lose that privilege if you can potentially cause harm to others. For example, if I administer 200 mCi of Iodine-131 (half life 8 days, gamma and beta rays)to a patient for recurrent thyroid cancer, and he agrees to stay at home alone for over a week, yet instead he hops on a cross-country bus sitting hours and hours next to a pregnant lady and small children, then both he and I would be considered irresponsible in protecting the public from unnecessary radiation exposure.
I lived in the Philippines for the past 5 years, so I actually watched this technology reach the masses. Most of the posters here have no cultural clue of why this technology exploded the way that it did. It's a matter of economics.
Manila is a densely populated city, with a very poor telephone structure (i.e. difficult for the masses to phone, internet, email, voicemail, answering machines). Hence the popularity of cell phones in general. But how can they all afford it? Because, unlike in the U.S., you DON'T have to pay to RECIEVE a cell call in the Philippines. So "texting" became popular because, in this traffic-congested city where it can take you 2 hours to go 2 miles by car, everyone can communicate with each other for a flat monthly rate. That's it. Simple as that. You have to understand the culture too.
Incidently, when I was there I had operater-assisted text paging for $7/month. When I came back to the U.S., I was expecting the same. But employing an operator in the U.S. is a heck of a lot more expensive, but making phone calls is easy and inexpensive in the U.S. so that is why we all live on voice mail instead. I got my operator-assisted text paging, but it was expensive, and no one ever used it.
One more thing: to set another slashdot poster straight: it was Globe Telecom, not Smart, who started the whole texting thing. And recently they were in legal battles because they wouldn't share their texting network with other companies (i.e. everyone who wanted to "text" had to sign up with Globe). Kind of like AOL's IM.