X-rays are part of healthcare as a diagnostic tool. Almost everyone
has had an x-ray at some point in their lives.

This "tidakapa" young female radiographer, Jessica, in Tung Shin Hospital
last week was practically "screwed" left and right by me in front of the whole
department, when she didn't bother to listen to my request to lower
the power to the minimum dose possible, and just fired away.

I told her that she was playing around with my life, as even a single
exposure of gamma rays puts one at risk of lung cancer, and if I were to
contract small cell lung cancer, even suing her would be  pointless since
that carries a prognosis of one month without treatment, or 10 months with
chemo.

The reason is I have to have a chest x-ray every two to three months
as part of the doctor's monitoring of my TB treatment, for a total of
6 exposures. That's a lot of radiation, at about 10 millirads an exposure.

I found out later from another more responsible radiographer there,
Mubarak, who had shot the last film for me two months ago, that she
had shot at 100 kv for 2 milliseconds. Isn't that high ?

I remember my father's chest x-ray done at the same hospital over a
decade ago was done at only 40 kv.

I'm not a doctor but I agree with queenc.

I remember being told by my doctor that the higher the radiation dose, the clearer the x-ray image will be. Can't remember if I hear that correctly.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I remember reading somewhere that taking one chest x-ray is equivalent to being exposed to background radiation for one month. In fact, we are being exposed to radiation every single day. The more dangerous thing is the CT scan. Instead, the chest x-ray doesn't really pose any harm at all.

There was once I took a digital chest x-ray (that's the term that I was told, which contain a lower radiation dose) at a private hospital. As a result, my doctor was having some hard time reading and comparing the x-ray because it was not as clear as another earlier x-ray which I took at a government hospital which has a much clearer image.