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To the Editor: We recently treated a 34-year-old man for Graves disease with 20 mCi of iodine 131. Twenty-four hours after treatment, his radioactive iodine uptake was 63%. Three weeks after treatment, he returned to our clinic complaining that he had been strip-searched twice at Manhattan subway stations. Police had identified him as emitting radiation and had detained him for further questioning. He returned to the clinic and requested a letter stating that he had recently been treated with radioactive iodine.

This patient's experience indicates that radiation detection devices are being installed in public places in New York City and perhaps elsewhere. Patients who have been treated with radioactive iodine or other isotopes may be identified and interrogated by the police because of the radiation they emit.

We called the Terrorism Task Force of the New York City Police Department to determine how to prevent detainment of this group of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Christoph Buettner, MD, PhD; Martin I. Surks, MD
Department of Medicine
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
New York, NY

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