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In your professional opinion how many chest xrays are bad and a risk for the health?
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Depends: Xrays use radiation which should generally be avoided. If the xray is needed to answer a clinical question to guide treatment, the benefit outweighs the small risk for radiation. Thus there is no defined answer of how many xrays are too much.
Answered 6/28/2014
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