• Settlement reached after 2-year-old receives 151 CT scans Friday, May 28, 2010

    Eureka (Cal.) Times-StandardJohn Driscoll reports a confidential settlement has been reached with Mad River Community Hospital in Arcata, Cal., after a radiology technician administered 151 CT scans to a 2-year-old boy over a 65-minute period.  The case, along with the overradiation of more than 200 patients at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, has led to proposed legislation that would make it possible for medical providers to better track patients’ radiation exposure.

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