NY Times reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has announced its second-largest fine given to a medical institution, amounting to $227,500, on a veterans hospital in Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Veteran Affairs Medical Center was fined with such amount for their unprecedented number of radiation errors in treating patients, specially those with prostate cancer. Ninety-seven of the 116 procedures done by the hospital from 2002 to 2008 were erroneous, misplacing radio active seeds.
More about this, on the full report, link provided below.
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