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Legal and ethical issues in medical physics
Date:7/18/2008

yees, colleagues, independent contractors, safety officers, and mentors. Each of these roles comes with its own set of ethical, professional, or legal responsibilities, and keeping straight the distinctions between these roles is not always easy.

One aspect of vital importance is safety. Medical physicists are often responsible for the proper use of radioactive materials. With ongoing concerns over terrorism, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has beefed up its rules, and it behooves medical physicists to be aware of their legal commitments. Farah Bagne (frbagne@aol.com) of Mercury Medical Systems in Bloomfield Hills, MI, will discuss current NRC regulations and other legalities in the medical physics profession. Wearing both the hats of a medical physicist and a lawyer, Bagne is especially qualified to delineate wherein duty lies.

Bagne's talk, "Ethical Versus Legal Issues in the Practice of Medical Physics" (TU-D-350-1) will be at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday July 29, 2008 in Room 350. Room: 350. Abstract: http://www.aapm.org/meetings/amos2/pdf/35-9896-57558-20.pdf

3) MORE LEGAL ISSUES: LIABILITY AND REGULATION

Another aspect of legal issues faced by medical physicists involves federal and state regulation and enforcement. Currently the NRC is in charge of setting regulations governing the use of radioactive material. It also enforces these rules, determines if infractions are willful or not, and engages in mediation to settle disputes over NRC rules and violations.

Francis "Chip" Cameron, president of Zero Gravity Group LLC, will examine the legal liability issues faced by facilities and individual medical physicists who violate these regulations or who take actions that may be viewed as negligent. He will also look at how these issues impact medicine today and examine how the NRC resolves enf
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Contact: Jason Bardi
jbardi@aip.org
301-209-3091
American Institute of Physics
Source:Eurekalert

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