"I think just talking to someone and explaining, you know, what's going to happen and how we're doing the MRI is really helpful," she says. "We usually don't get to tell the patient like, oh, I saw this and I gave it to you immediately." She adds that there are so many protocol steps that have to go through before a scan can be performed. 'You can't pop up like a gopher and be like, hey, whoa'
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