r/HealthPhysics

I feel like the precautions we received from nuclear medicine are super lax. Dose was 200 mci. Essentially hygiene protocols were only 3 days. And most others only a day or two. Not sleeping with children was 10 days which was the only long one. I feel like these all should be longer!

Partner isolated for 6 days away from home. Came home 7th day. He wanted to jump right back into life as normal. I’m having him still use a separate bathroom, and I’m not sleeping in the same bed.

We are on day 8 and l am not comfortable with any of it. How can I trust the information we got…. All I can think about is the risk to me and my small kids. Any advice is appreciated.

My husband had his tracer scan done this week. He was told to not worry about any restrictions at all. I didn’t think much of it, but have since learned that others are told to isolate for a day or more and/or to take extra precautions with hygiene as well as personal space. We have two very young kids and I’m now worried about what they were potentially exposed to. I do trust the nuclear medicine team, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t still nervous and wishing we were given more education. A lot of the learning about this whole process I’ve done by reading about what others have gone through. I know every case is different, however. Anyone experience anything similar or could help me understand?

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I recently discovered the medical physics career path, and that's led me to health physics. Are there any other little-talked-about regulatory jobs I should look into?

What do salaries look like? The statistics are really limited. What is your work environment like?

I have been a radar engineer for a defense contractor for ~5 years. I'm neurodivergent and I've been pushing myself to work at the highest level of my mental ability. I'm pretty sick of engineering. I have a lot of attention to detail and I like having an excuse to walk around.