Discovered a flaw in SGH today...visited grandpa yesterday and today, and my relatives and my mum had been making noise about nurses taking X-rays of patients in the same room as my grandpa, and when they were doing it, they'd ask all the visitors to go out so as 'not to get exposed to the X-ray radiation'. The first thing that came to our minds was.."so what about the patients?"

Well today we got the answer. A dissatisfying one at that.

"Well it'd be almost impossible for us to wheel out all the patients when an X-ray needed to be taken. Especially since they require so many machines and tubes, it would be terribly inconvenient and risky."

that was my version. The one given to us came in substandard english...so there it is.

What i noticed was that the nurses who performed the X-ray had suits which were probably leaded, because they hung like rock filled aprons from the X-ray machine. From my knowledge, wearing leaded clothing blocks out X-ray radiation...and sufficient shielding can be enough to shield even gamma radiation.

but the point is, if THEY had leaded protection? so why not provide it for the patients? you don't very well have to wheel them out. Just cover them with leaded suits to block out the radiation. Sure, it wouldn't block out all of it, but some protection is better than none, now is it?

can't believe the hospital staff couldn't outthink a sixteen year old in terms of patient welfare...they probably did, but just didn't want to do anything about it. 185 years of establishment, eh? still looking like a hospital in the nineties...

oh well. School starts tomorrow....and I feel bored already.

LAZY!