Maximizing distance between yourself and the patient protect you from radiation. exposure to radiation is extremely small if you are feet away from the patient.

Radiation is extensively used in the field of healthcare to treat, diagnose, and detect disease.

The examiner performing a radiation procedure on the patient should be 6 feet away from the exposure to the radiation.

Radiation exposure is a harmful event, which can lead to mutation, skin burns, and radiation sickness. The patient undergoing a radioactive treatment should be treated from 6 feet away, as it has adverse effects on the health.

For example, in the case of hyperthyroidism, the patient has been prescribed to take radioactive iodine, to treat the disease. The examiner should be 6 feet away from the patient to minimize exposure to radioactive elements or radiation.

Therefore, the examiner should be 6 feet away from the patient.

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an individual’s sex (i.e., whether they are a male or female) is determined by the sex chromosomes. most people have two sex chromosomes, one that is inherited from their mother and one that is inherited from their father. typically, females have two x chromosomes (xx) and males have one x chromosome and one y chromosome (xy). conditions caused by changes (“mutations”) in genes located on the x chromosome are considered x-linked.

x-linked recessive inheritance

most x-linked conditions are recessive. this means that in a person with two x chromosomes (most females), both copies of a gene (i.e., one on each x chromosome) must have a change or mutation whereas in a person with one x chromosome (most males), only one copy of a gene must have a mutation. a female with a mutation in one copy of a gene on the x chromosome is said to be a “carrier” for an x-linked condition. a male with a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome is typically affected with the condition. because females have two copies of the x chromosome and males have only one x chromosome, x-linked recessive diseases are more common among males than females. however, x-linked recessive diseases can occur in both males and females.

for x-linked recessive disorders, an unaffected carrier mother who has a mutation in a gene on the x chromosome can transmit either the x chromosome with this mutation or a “normal” x chromosome to her children. if the father is unaffected, none of her daughters will be affected and all of her daughters will be unaffected—since they will inherit at least one normal x chromosome from their father. however, each daughter will have a 50% chance of being an unaffected carrier like her mother and a 50% chance of both x chromosomes being normal.