Months after a CT scanner laboratory opened next door to the clinic where she worked, Paulette Valentine began to think something was wrong.

Employees at St. George Endocrine and Diabetes Clinic, where Valentine was clinic director, were increasingly sick. She suspected radiation.

State law had required shielding between the new CT lab — and the harmful radiation from its X-ray machinery — and Valentine’s clinic, and plans for the renovations before it moved in had called for lead-lined drywall.

But a hole cut into a wall revealed only drywall and insulation — and that Valentine was right.

The result, a new lawsuit contends, is that 27 people — including three children — were exposed to excessive levels of radiation and suffered headaches, nausea, dizziness, fatigue, malaise and

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