“…….anguish and shame over the discovery that the tiniest, most vulnerable of all patients — premature babies — had been over-radiated in the department…….at State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn.

A day earlier, ……..a newborn had been irradiated from head to toe — with no gonadal shielding — even though only a simple chest X-ray had been ordered…….

……And the problems did not end there……..the hospital’s new pediatric radiologist found that full-body X-rays of premature babies had occurred often, that radiation levels on powerful CT scanners had been set too high for infants, and that babies had been poorly positioned, making it hard for doctors to interpret the images……….”