How a Specific Consultation Can Become a Major Asset for the Practice and for the Community John W. Gofman, M.D., Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Molecular and Cell Biology, Univ. Calif. Berkeley and Egan O'Connor, Exec. The X-rays and Health Project. An educational project of the Committee for Nuclear Responsibility.
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The proposal can be described first by telling what happened twenty years ago in Toronto, Canada. The details are available in Taylor 1979 and Taylor 1983 . Radiologists are the experts in interpreting the medical meaning of x-ray images, whereas medical physicists have special expertise in the physics and mathematics of making the images. These achievements were obtained without purchases of major new equipment. If the Toronto radiologists assumed, before the consultation, that doses at their facilities were already as low as technically possible, their assumption was demonstrably mistaken.