3 months in radiotherapy and I still have my patient empathy. Perhaps a little too much. We had lectures last week and as part of one on radiation safety, the Radiation Protection Advisor asked, “Why do we do what we do?”. Now I’ve worked with him previously and he’s lovely and so without any hesitation … Continue reading “To save patients’ lives!?”
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ART*- less of an art, more of a science.
*(Adaptive Radiotherapy) People are the worst, right? Humans have their own internal biases, their own ways of doing things, their own subjectivity and their own distractions. So why don't we just automate all treatment planning? This was certainly the attitude that I took at before beginning this placement in radiotherapy. It turns out that it's … Continue reading ART*- less of an art, more of a science.
"You're obviously not a scientist" 