Alaina Urquhart

Yeah.

Now, despite their employer's insistence that everything was on the up and up, everything is entirely, completely, don't worry about it.

Couldn't be safer.

Could not be safer.

The fact remains that many people, painters and ordinary citizens, were continuing to get sick.

Some, like the worker who complained of the mouth sores after a mouth, showed signs of radiation burns, while others had more complicated problems, because radiation burns at least...

You know, like that scientist, when you're taken away from the radiation, usually your body can heal itself.

But others had more complicated problems like bone deterioration.

Some girls took their concerns straight to their regular doctors.

But because radiation poisoning and radiation burns were so uncommon, their symptoms and injuries were like mostly misdiagnosed as other things.

Mm-hmm.

Others who went to their managers or company doctors were just ignored.

Or worse, they would just, the company doctors or managers would just misdiagnose them with sexually transmitted diseases.

Are you kidding me?

To smear the reputations of the women.

Knowing full well what was actually happening.

Yep.

And they would do this to smear the reputations of them to discourage them from disclosing their symptoms to anyone else.

Because if you're being told by your company doctor, you have a sexually transmitted disease in the 1920s.

Oh, my God.