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Guy H. Simmons, MS; James G. Kereiakes, PhD; Henry N. Wellman, MD

JAMA. 1971;217(8):1082-1084.

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The shortage of qualified technologists and technicians in nuclear medicine is a serious problem. The urgent need is not only for additional people, but for more highly qualified ones capable of performing technical functions with a minimum of direct supervision, thereby allowing the physician to concentrate more on activities that require his medical skill and judgement. The National Advisory Committee on Radiation in its April 1966 report to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service stated the problem in the following words: "In the field of technological manpower, serious difficulties currently prevail in the provision of adequate numbers of clinical X-ray and Nuclear Laboratory Technologists in the United States."¹ The Committee recommended that the Public Health Service should undertake "a series of training programs to provide increasing numbers of technologists in the several disciplines of the Radiological Sciences." As one step toward meeting this challenge, the Public Health . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Radioisotope Laboratory, General Hospital; and the Division of Medical Radiation Exposure, Bureau of Radiological Health, Environmental Health Service, Cincinnati.

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Radioisotope Laboratory, General Hospital, Cincinnati 45229 (Dr. Kereiakes).

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