Your post made me happy, Daywoo. Glad to hear of your good progress.
An oncologist can send you to the radiation oncologist of his choice. There is more than equipment involved in treating cancer with radiation.
Careful markings and careful assessments of a patients body is part of the treatment. A patient may have a slight curvature of the spine or other form of scoliosis and their body must be carefully replaced each time to receive the radiation EXACTLY the way she did yesterday. A slight mistake in this can burn the lung tissue that it was not meant to radiate, if perhaps that person was being treated for breast cancer.
I am not surprised that the Moffitt Center wants their own equipment and radiation oncologists, that is just how it works in the full service cancer centers.
This advertising by Boissonault falls outside what a medical center usually does in my opinion. In fact I haven't ever seen it done. It really looks to me like free enterprise at it's worst.
Yes, there will be two. Yes, they won't get all of the business like they did before.
They have four other locations in central Florida if I remember correctly.
I think they are doing more harm than good to their image, at least they are in my eyes.
Just my very humble opinion.
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