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Congress has an opportunity to improve the quality of medical imaging and radiation therapy. The Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy bill, or CARE bill, would establish minimum standards for personnel who perform these procedures. It would ensure that personnel are qualified to produce the images doctors use to make life-saving decisions. Become educated about the CARE bill. Contact your congressman today and insist that they sign on to sponsor this important piece of healthcare legislation. |
So much depends upon the quality of medical imaging examinations. When properly performed, they allow doctors to detect injury and diagnose disease. When improperly performed, they are useless. That’s why it is so surprising that 8 states and the District of Columbia allow people with little or no training to perform x-rays and other diagnostic imagine examinations. In 17 states, inadequately educated personnel are allowed to deliver radiation therapy designed to treat cancer, and in 23 states they are allowed to perform nuclear medicine procedures.
