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You'll get false positives if anyone goes for a cardiac stress test...

That's why you only wear your dosimetry when you're at work.

From all this uproar lately, sounds like work is a cardiac stress test for the TSA.

Not nearly as much as it is for the passengers.

For all the uproar, as of the last time I went through TSA security (about a week before the new "sexual assault" procedures started), the screeners seemed to be perfectly happy in their roles.

Wouldn't matter. Cardiac stress tests usually use technetium or some other radioactive tracer which remains in the body for a day or two after the test. That means that, for the next day or so, you are a "radiation hazard" (not really, but the dosimeters don't know the difference, or at least that's what I was told by the radiation control officer).

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