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Radiation Oncologists and physicist in JAIL

 A French court on Wednesday sentenced two doctors and a radiophysicist to 18 months in prison for their role in radiation overdoses given to nearly 450 cancer patients.  At least 12 people have died as a result of the overdoses administered to patients at the Jean Monnet hospital in Epinal in northeastern France between 2001 and 2006.  Dozens more are seriously ill as a result of calibration errors that produced the most serious radiation overdose incident France has known.  The doctors and the radiophysicist had been charged with manslaughter, failure to help people in danger and destroying evidence.

From The Sunday Times

Warsaw 2017