LINAC and the Iron Lung

The treatment has a pattern...

Analog treatment

Paul: I wake in the morning perky as a box of birds. Work the morning until 11 then hop on the e-bike with a Heigh Ho Silver to the hospital. After the treatment and into the evening, I feel a bit as if my brain has been hacked.

Dr Samuelson: A zombie?

Paul: Not that bad. The drop in chirpiness comes after being loaded into the LINAC. Reminds me of those iron lungs used in the 1950s.

Dr Samuelson: But your head is inside the LINAC isn’t it, while the head is outside the iron lung?

Paul: I didn’t mean it is an iron lung, just that it reminded me of one.

Digital treatment

Dr Samuelson: An iron lung is a mechanical respirator. A LINAC is pumping X-rays into you.

Paul. Granted. And a patient spent weeks or even years in
an iron lung and only spends minutes in a LINAC.

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Voice-over

Quite different technologies. Analog vs digital.