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Two DEIs wtf?Elections - American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) - American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO)
ASTRO holds annual elections for its Board of Directors.
This was the first year so had to elect a chair and vice-chair - other positions are for vice-chair who is eventually promoted to chair (if i'm remembering things correctly)
TN Onc staffs the proton center south of nashville. This doesnt necessarily make her a proton protector, though.
"Provision CARES Proton Therapy Nashville, a partner of Tennessee Oncology, is the only proton therapy center in Middle Tennessee."
I will admit, I know nothing about her other than the company that pays her has a vested interest/partnership with a struggling company within the proton industry.
I don't think so. I also have no reason to think she's a proton shill. Just clarification regarding any possible disincentives. I don't exactly think highly of Provision, though.
Proton is our subprime crisis
If a venture capital proton place wants to LIV me, my dms are open...
Everybody loves a good hand out
We don’t get anything just like 2008. Our betters (admins, health execs) they are getting paid. Consolidation.
And volume. The mystical “if you build it they will come” almost never pans out. Can give you a competitive edge in a tight market. AKA not the rural Midwest.
The shameless ads, email advertorials, linkedin messages etc aren't for nothing
Multiple midwest proton centres in works m8
Guess the multiple bankruptcies/"restructurings" so far haven't dissuaded them
Case in point
Poor take. Just cause she works for a large private practice that happens to staff a proton center (where she has never worked, AFAIK) doesn't make her a proton shill. Her group staffs like 20+ RO departments. It'd be like calling anybody from SERO a proton shill (even if they never worked at the upcoming SERO proton facility).
Or go out out of business (Indiana)
That one was interesting. It was an old research cyclotron based in Bloomington, Indiana, associated with the IU physics department. As physics research progressed, lower-energy cyclotrons no longer were able to discover new particles/interactions, so they converted the cyclotron into a tx facility. Cost some money, but not nearly what building a new machine from scratch would have cost.
Yeah but arent the nearby clinics competitors with different doctors who get paid by productivity? Has this model been successful? Seems to me people just say well protons not needed I need to eat while I count my gold coins. The lack of photons also leads to inappropriate treatment because physicians dont have all the tools and they also need to eat themselves. Protons are a great way to treat everything all of a sudden.
Have not seen that at larger centers with protons and photons. Quite a bit of bait and switch actually, esp when the cyclotron is at capacity....
Of course it happens. It is a bait for many of these places then they put them on the photon machine when they need. My point is that a proton/CK only place is never the way to go.
