Full Article at: NRC issues orders against 2 former Philly VA medical specialists
By Brian Bowling
PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
"Viktoria Mitlyng, an Nuclear Regulatory Commission [NRC] spokeswoman, said the agency was ordering Dr. Gary Kao to refrain from any "NRC-regulated activities" because he no longer works at an institution that can require him to undergo the training the agency believes he needs before performing medical procedures involving radioactive materials. Most of the treatments he performed were wrong," she said."
A separate order was issued "against medical physicist Gregory Desobry" that "requires him to notify the NRC — which normally issues orders only to institutions — if he ever takes another job that involves NRC-regulated activities."
"The NRC investigation focused on a prostate treatment known as brachytheraphy, a procedure that uses the injection of rice-sized seeds of iodine-125 to kill off cancerous cells. The Philadelphia VA staff flubbed 97 of the 116 brachytherapy procedures it performed from 2002-08, and Kao was responsible for 91 of those botched procedures, according to the NRC."
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