stands author dr howard stephen friedman sat down with r.t. i mean it was initiated by a conversation with my cousin when they were discussing the patient care and affordable care act patient patient protection and affordable care act and he had been defending the current system in america saying that it's the best in the world and i asked him how do you know that and his response was well i have no idea interestingly just a couple days afterwards i was doing some of my work at the united nations and i was looking at the human development report and it dawned on me that the data to compare the united states to other wealthy countries is readily available you can look at it you can see how we're doing and from there you can identify if we're doing better or worse and in the areas we're not doing as well one of the lessons we can learn from other countries so when you do the comparison what you find is overall the united states doesn't do that well on health safety democracy and equality we have some of the lowest rankings for education roughly

dr. tilton mentioned the resources that the faa has to calculate out radiation doses that wally friedman did. that's called, it's available on the website, and i know alpa and the associations have folks are looking at radiation issues. also the white paper that he mentioned earlier looks at possibly asking the airlines with monitoring radiation dosages, much like a radiation, radiation type worker would wear a dosimeter. for the individual pilot though those answers are not satisfactory. so we are confronted with a situation where people may ask us about what to do. the person who is at highest risk is the pregnant pilot in her first trimester. and that's an individual decision about whether she should fly or not, there are certain strategies we recommend that people would take if they would elect to continue to fly. that woman should probably fly at the lower latitudes because of the greater shielding from the ozone. and also fly lower altitudes to get more protection. so the short duration flights in the southern latitudes would be a significantly lower radiation exposure than someone