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THE
DIRE ACT
Diagnostic Ionizing Radiation Exposure (DIRE) Act
Proposed legislation requiring clinicians to preemptively inform patients about the risks and side effects associated with ionizing radiation in diagnostic medical tests in an effort to reduce cancer and disease caused by ionizing radiation.
THE
DIRE ACT
PURPOSE
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REQUIRE DOSE EDUCATION
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TEACH DOSE EFFECTS
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SET DOSE LIMITS
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MANDATE DOSE LIMITS
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PRESCRIBE DOSE LIKE MEDICINE
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MEASURE DOSE IN REAL TIME
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MONITOR DOSE DELIVERY
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ASSESS DOSE SCATTER
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STORE DOSE EXPOSURE
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RESEARCH DOSE DATA
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REPORT DOSE ERRORS
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TRACK DOSE CANCERS
I want the right to choose what happens to my body. If I don't want DIRE from a CT, a mammogram or an x-ray, I shouldn't be forced into it. The DIRE Act aims to give me, and all of us, that right.
Karen Nussbaumer
Founder, ADOM
Goals
Tackle radiation induced disease
Tackle radiation induced cancer and disease caused by DIRE
Right
to choose
Increase the patient’s right to choose safer diagnostic exams.
Reduce
carbon footprint
Reduce the carbon footprint from medical diagnostic testing
Improve risk vs. benefit ratio
Protect pregnant women & children
Collect and correlate data to improve the risk vs. benefit calculation for medical radiation
Increase research towards radiation protection for pregnant women
and children
Why Donate?
100% of your donation goes directly into aggressive lobbying efforts to pass The DIRE Act into law, to create educational platforms to spread awareness about the harms of DIRE as well as how to heal from it, to build a Radiation Registry that will allow clinicians and patients to track their own radiation exposure, including environmental and manmade radiation, and to conduct real time research of radiation in the ground, water, and air as well as in radiology departments nationwide.
It is imperative that we protect our children and our children's children by working together to pass The DIRE Act. A law that will directly impact how diagnostic medicine is practiced, not only in the United States, but worldwide. A law that will turn the tables of medicine towards protecting patients, instead of harming them with deadly radiation. A law that will fully enforce the Hippocratic Oath, "First Do No Harm", by educating both clinicians and patients about the harms of radiation as well as the safe alternatives. A law that will give us choice over our own bodies. The DIRE Act is much more than radiation education, awareness and monitoring. The DIRE Act is also freedom to choose what happens to our bodies by empowering patients with knowledge of the safe and effective alternatives that exist. The DIRE Act is knowledge to advocate for what you want, not what you are forced into.
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