Sorry but I can't help but laugh at the doctor's name.
Anyway, my mom's thyroid has stopped working (not related to Chernobyl) so she has to take medicine for the rest of her life. Good thing the medicine is generic and cheap.
Someone on the other forum went to Chernobyl recently and took looks of pictures. Pretty amazing how one object can be relatively safe, but another 10' away is killer radiation.
My mom was pretty scared during the whole 3-mile island incident as my family was living (I wasn't born at the time) only 30 or 40mi away from the plant.