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It Would Have Been My Machine: The Oncology Operator, Issue 007 · Medsolve Dynamics

Yoel Bakas: If you had asked me 20 years ago what machine your program should buy, I would have given you an honest answer, just like I always do. And it would have been my machine. That's not a character flaw. It's where I sat. It's also where a vendor's physicist sits on that one question. Only that one. Look, they have the same board certification, the same obligations as the physicist you employ. And on QA, commissioning and clinical work, it never comes up. On which machine to buy, it sometimes does. So when the physics quote comes from the company that builds the machine, ask one thing and write the answer down. Under this arrangement, who gives my program an independent technical read on the next machine and who do they work for?