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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

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