Pamela

When I posted, I had not slept in over 46 hours and was still groggy from the surgery and had just gotten another morphine shot, so please excuse all the typos.
First of all, ask hot shot rad doc to use Grays, Only old fashioned out of date people use Rads, So it is possible that this doctor does over radiate if he is using a 1975 standard from last century Here is a quick primer
[quote]The adoption of the gray by the 15th CGPM in 1975 as the unit of measure of the absorption of ionising radiation, specific energy absorption in 1975 was the culmination of over half a century of work, both in the understanding of the nature of ionising radiation and in the refinement of measuring techniques.The gray supersedes the rad , an older unit of radiation dose. In some documents the rad is still used; the gray is 100 times larger. To convert rads to grays, multiply by 0.01. To convert grays to rads, multiply by 100.[/quote]
At the very least, take him down a peg by asking why he using an outdated vocabulary which is usually a sign of not being on top of new developments and displays an dangerous unwillingness to learn new things.
Again, if he pushing more than 77 Grays total, your chemo doctor might be quite right.
Charm