Prof. MD. Serife Nur Ulusan

As a 72-year-old with worsening hip pain, I was terrified of needing surgery. Prof. Ulusan didn't just scan my hip, she noticed subtle irregularities in my lower spine on the MRI that everyone else had missed for years. She spent 20 minutes with me and my daughter, drawing diagrams on tissue paper to show how spinal stenosis was referring pain. Her 'total picture' approach changed my treatment completely. She has the eyes of a hawk and the patience of a saint.

Our 8-year-old son Leo had a complex abdominal mass discovered during a soccer injury scan. What could have been a nightmare became manageable because of Dr. Ulusan's extraordinary approach. She used a stuffed animal to explain the MRI machine, let him choose the 'space adventure' soundtrack during the scan, and later reviewed the 3D reconstructed images with him, calling his organs 'planets in his galaxy.' Her radiology report was so detailed our surgeon said it was like having a roadmap. She transforms fear into fascination.

I arrived at Medical Park Antalya's ER at midnight with acute, unexplained neurological symptoms. Prof. Ulusan was called in for an emergency cerebral angiography. What struck me was how she managed the high-pressure situation: calmly explaining each step in Turkish despite my panic, her hands steady as she navigated the catheter, and her immediate identification of a rare arteriovenous fistula that required urgent intervention. Her night-time expertise saved me from a potential stroke. This wasn't just reading images, this was live, lifesaving navigation inside my brain.

After having breast cancer five years ago, my annual follow-up MRI always sends me into a week-long anxiety spiral. This year, Prof. Ulusan did something remarkable: she compared my current images not just to last year's, but to my baseline scans from 2018, pointing out stable tissue architecture with a specialized software overlay. She then said, 'Your body is telling a story of healing, not disease.' For a radiologist to provide such psychological comfort through pixels and gradients, that's art masquerading as science. She reads between the scan lines.