Dear Dosimetrist, First, thank you. Thank you for somehow turning my simulation scans into clinically elegant treatment plans while surviving an inbox full of “quick" questions, last-minute schedule changes, and contour revisions labeled urgent. I know what you’re thinking when a new CT dataset lands in your queue. Please let this one be clean.
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Dear Dosimetrist, First, thank you. Thank you for somehow turning my simulation scans into clinically elegant treatment plans while surviving an inbox full of “quick" questions, last-minute schedule...
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