A patient is apprehensive before a procedure. Another is dealing with queasiness during treatment. An older adult is restless in an unfamiliar environment. For the nurse caring for them, the question isn't whether these experiences matter. It's what can I do to help?

You find out the oral contrast product your department routinely uses isn’t available. Cases are still on the schedule. Patients are still coming in. And now your team needs an alternative that works for the patient, the technologist, and the radiologist. Finding something you can use is only part of the decision.

It’s 7:30 a.m., and the reading list is already building.  A breast imaging radiologist logs into the workstation, coffee still warm, and begins scrolling through the first DBT exam of the day. Many more will follow. Each case represents a patient, a story, and the responsibility to detect something that could change, or even save, a life.