The gantry Proton machine is huge, and proton equipment is a city block long, so we'll call that Emerald City lol. Seems this RO was out of the loop, as far as knowing when the treatment plan would be completed, and said it takes three weeks. It probably didn't help I had 18 PET/CT, CT and MRI's discs to give them, and determining dosage from prior radiation. From what I know, the RO has to approve all treatments plans, and is overall in charge. The RO knows the formula the physicist or dosimetrist it's uses, but hear a computer does it now, at least for IMRT. After I saw my RO, different from Proton, last year, he said, now the difficult part of his job begins, treatment planning. He isn't taking orders from no one, and calls all the shots, pleasant enough guy though, and is the Physician in Chief for their 5 hospitals, Chairman of Radiation oncology, Co-director for Head and Neck Cancer, so can't see the physicist being above him. I still would like to meet the Wizard, kind of like, where's Waldo in the picture.
