"The Medical Physicist and Cancer Care: Transcending Your Comfort Zone"

Breaking out of your comfort zone!

Sexuality and cancer: conversation comfort zone.

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), founded The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center at MGH. The Schwartz Center is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery, which provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and encourages the healing process. The center sponsors ...

Editorial: Radiological Emergencies and the Medical Physicist

The events at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan prompted an editorial(1) written by Bill Hendee, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of Medical Physics, in which he discussed the role of medical physicists as potential volunteers in responding to public health emergencies, especially radiological emergencies of various types. In order to obtain more widespread dissemination of this informatio...

Radiological Emergencies and the Medical Physicist

The widespread damage and loss of life caused by the March 11th earthquake-generated tsunami in Japan, and the resulting emergency at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, raise once again the question of the role of knowledgeable civilians in responding to public health emergencies. In the case of a radiological emergency, medical physicists are among the more knowledgeable individuals...

Patient safety and the medical physicist.

Overexposures in computed tomography: In several institutions, overexposures have occurred during use of x-ray computed tomography (CT) for brain perfusion studies to identify 10 the neurological consequences of strokes and other events. In some cases, patients received exposures that were several times greater than necessary. The overexposures were caused by use of inappropriate CT protocols f...