Re: A sad good bye to this interesting list server!

[trappe@physics.utexas.edu (Karl Trappe)]

John:  I have harbored a strong interest in medical physics since first
teaching the pre-med course back in 1975.  I will keep your references in
my "museum" file, as that public sector is my second calling, and a place
where understanding of the connections with physics is sorely needed.

Best wishes to you on your "second retirement" from physics.  Here's to
another 76 years of being too busy for all of the things on your plate.
Cheers, Karl

> Dear Colleagues,
>        I used to be a physics teacher. I have been a member of the AAPT
> and several of its Wisconsin section for about 3 decades. My primary
> interest is physics applied to medicine, an area not well represented in
> the discussions on this list (for obvious reasons).  At 76 and after 12
> years of retirement I find I have too many things to do!  In leaving the
> list I hope not to leave this world. If any of you have a question
> involving physics applications in medicine feel free to contact me by
> e-mail (jrcamero@facstaff.wisc.edu).
>
>        Here are three items that may be of interest to some list members:
> 1. The workshop on medical instrumentation at the University of
> Wisconsin-Madison June 8-10 still has openings. The web page is
> http://www.medphysics.wisc.edu/workshop98/index.html You can also send an
> e-mail message to Prof. Larry DeWerd (ladewerd@facstaff.wisc.edu), the
> organizer of the workshop or Prof. Jim Zagzebski  (JIMZAG@MACC.WISC.EDU),
> who is in charge of the program and who will be the lead editor on the text
> book which we expect to result from the workshop. This text is to replace
> the missing half of the old text Medical Physics by Cameron & Skofronick
> published by Wiley in 1978 and long out of print. The new text will be
> published by Medical Physics Publishing (http://www.medicalphysics.org) or
> mpp@medicalphysics.org. MPP is the publisher of Physics of the Body by
> Cameron, Skofronick and Grant (1992) the other half of the old Medical
> Physics text.
>
> 2. Some of you may be interested in a  Frequently Asked Questions in
> medical physics web page which was started recently by George Sherouse, the
> founder in 1985 of the medical physics list server. You can go there to
> leave a question of to look at the answers to some FAQ. You will find it
> at: http://www.mindspring.com/~sherouse/MPFAQ.html
>
> 3. I have a number of unpublished (i.e., rejected) articles dealing with
> radiation available by e-mail if you send a request to
> jrcamero@facstaff.wisc.edu.  The titles of two of them are:
>
> Explaining Radiation to Patients (Aimed at radiologists but physicists
> should have no difficulty!)
> Some thoughts on the current radiation protection paradigm. (Aimed at
> health physicists.)
>
> I've enjoyed your list and learned a bit. Feel free to contact me if you
> ever need a free talk for your AAPT Section meeting on Is Radiation As
> Dangerous As They Say? or The case for beneficial radiation (radiation
> hormesis.  (radon does reduce lung cancer caused by smoking!.)
>
> Best wishes, John Cameron
>
>
> John R. Cameron, winter home: 2678 SW 14th Dr., Gainesville, FL 32608
> phones : 352/371-9865; Fax 352/371-9866   About May 15, 1998 we go to our
> summer home:  2571 Porter Rd., P.O. Box 405, Lone Rock, WI 53556-0405
> Phones: 608/583-2160;  Fax: 608/583-2269  e-mail all year:
> jrcamero@facstaff.wisc.edu

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