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Jameson Hospital in New Castle, PA. reported that one of its physicians had a film badge reading of 9,218 mrem deep dose. The film badge was issued to the physician on 11/5/05 and processed by Global Dosimetry approximately four months after being issued. According to the radiation safety officer, the physician is a licensed anesthesiologist and was exposed to radioactive sources for approximately 3 hours per day providing fluoroscopy imaging procedures to patients spinal cords in a laboratory environment over the four month period. The only recorded dose for the physician this calendar year is 45 mrem from March 2006 to April 2006. There are no other individuals who worked in the same area as the affected physician reporting any high film badge readings. Jameson Hospital has notified the physician, initiated a root cause investigation, and is reprocessing the film badge to determine the root cause.

• * * RETRACTION ON 6/12/06 AT 1300 EDT FROM ROBERT ONDO TO A. COSTA * * *

The root cause investigation for this incident has been completed and it has been determined that the potential overexposure related to this individual is not from NRC related activities. Furthermore, the potential dose from the overexposure was not determined since the film badge was mishandled. Notified NMSS EO (G. Morell) and RDO (D. Silk).