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FILE NAME: Owens Illinois (OWILL) DATE: 1952 Nov 26 DOC#: OWILL107 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION: Memo RE Sending X-Rays to Saranac for Interpretation MB. vr. GOLEMS - 0A3 CITS' November 26, 1^52 ULct. 11/25/52 c0 - Mi S . H . C a n tr tll - Oaa C ity Mr. W. 8. Qeea - Toledo Lir* C . F . Shook - Toledo iioar B ills tfe am glad to hear you aero able to have x-rays made on the bricklayers who reoeatly c m to work a t Gas City* Red Gardner and the w riter discussed your le tte r o f November 2U to Bod Owen-and these are eur eamenta. Can you send the X-ray* to Saranac fo r in te rp re ta tio n -ju st ad, Id done usually with batch and m m X-raya? The address 1st X-ray Laboratory Trudeau sanitt*iMpi Trudeau, Hew York Please don't think this refloats in any ray on the roentgenologist whose diagnoses you have ju st received* I t does n o t. The people a t Saranac, however, have specialised for years in reading X-rays o f sen who have been posed to dust--including refractory brick dust* Their interpretations follow a certain pattern so that m am eeapare your men with bricklayers who have been X-rayad a t other 0-1 plants. Tide is the advantage o f using Saranac in add&tim to getting lo ca l inturpretatLoas. Incidentally, you w ill find Saranac's reports do not constitute diag noses They mamly interpret and record whatever abneraalitieB the radiol o g ist seas on the fils I t is not possible to sake a dla^gBsad* frea a film alone* A physician need* to have an i-ray* plus an o c e ^ iio iS l history p lu s a physical ewaminatioia* The X-ray alone i s an aid but i t often i s not conclusive. The sigaificanoe o f the lung changes cannot bo learned fraa what the X-ray alone aham fo r anathur reasons S ilic o s is is a slowly developing disease* Often a f i le has to be compared with one made a year or mare e a rlie r before a reliab le diagnosis can be made. Again--i f a middle-aged man who has spent a lifetim e in a dusty trade has developed only early s i l i co sis, he hasn't mash to worry about. He's much better o ff than the man oho has developed i t at an early age. I t 's interesting to hear those with long experience in s ilic o s is gay that when a nan is told he has s ilic o s is , the jo lt to him is often so great, more ham results from this mental and emotional shook than from tho physical e ffe cts o f tile disease it s e lf. For a ll these reasons, plus the hope that illegitim ate cla ia s can be avoided, we should proceed very cautiously In discussing findings with the b ric k la y e rs . MB. 3\. y . CGL&SlMi - OSS C U t 2 - Movaabar 26, 1952 Diet 11/25/52 Certainly we shouldn't te ll them any results u n til we gat Saranac's readings* A ltar wa got the Saranac reports# B r. Shook s i l l aavis you and your doctor hm to proceed In m m instances, not musl* can honestly be said oasept that tia>- mm hm e toother 1 -ray a then see to*) totas*: look* certainly to ttin g good would m m o i M ating thabocy ' the asa* imm. a U ito ^ ^ o to a .w s'id -to la u i^ -o f-t^ ^ J^ tsV v t & aoaaarisfcfty tor-1. w ist wa'd toggegtiti.. - 1 . 2erul the ilaa to Saranac to boon to possible. 2* Mark to toon snvolopos (a) tto m>a ago, and (b) appro-EAmato uaher o f years he'd been a fim m to bricklayer. if know you don't have physicals or personal hiatori*a on these sen, but wo thought S r. aagtamsy could psa* haps work with you and help in getting mah son's age .id yess>)i& the, feasaaee tnabdil^n^-tBada- Cunder sum- jasii o -$)w - 3 Send, to Dr* Shook copies o f tbs X-ray interpretations you have reasivad fro your lo ca l radlolegUt* It. Wait u a tll yes fear frost. S r i Shook before) finding am distogsod with any o f the staa*. 5 . If. toy o f these m m aea are-rehim i at a future date, re-X-ray thsse* x-ray toy ns* brid&aysr who aigbt be hired in the future, ju st to you did these mm. I f i t develops &om of the present m n uo have s ilic o s is , they should not be removed. furthermore, i f you hire aoto acre brioitLayora la the future, and on pree^xoyseat X-ray a man is found to have silia o o ia , i t 's liuostiohsido i f we'd lo t this interfere with employing nia* Brioklayers as?e highly sk illed , and very essanbiali we can 't often pick and choose aaong then* Xhia brick layer X-ray program was started as a ao1/*fiodlng program, act m a devise fo r selecting or rejecting tills or that individual. Saxt week, we understand. Red Gardner is going to be in Gas C ity , and Dr. shook w ill be there la to r. I f you have any quasfelons on the above points, you can no doubt iron them out with Red or Charlie. Personal regards* ' Sinerely yours, i l*UflsaM*W t v * ;\ T 1 t w O Y ft v m -y g*_-r<^vTr* _-r"T ^ r*r^ ^ rticv fM 'V V A A A