Dr. Elif Dinçer

As a 72-year-old retired cartographer with a rare form of vascular malformation in my liver, I'd been told my condition was inoperable for years. Dr. Dinçer spent three hours reviewing my decades of scans, noticing a subtle pattern others missed. Her innovative embolization plan using microcatheters she personally helped select shrank the lesion by 80%. For the first time in a decade, I can garden without pain.

My 8-year-old daughter, a competitive gymnast, developed unexplained hip pain that baffled four specialists. Dr. Dinçer didn't just read the MRI—she watched videos of my daughter's routines, correlating movements with imaging findings. She diagnosed a previously overlooked labral tear in a pediatric hip, creating a 3D printed model to show us exactly what was happening. Her collaboration with the orthopedic surgeon led to a minimally invasive repair, and my daughter is back competing at national level.

During a solo hiking trip in Cappadocia, I (34M adventure photographer) suffered a complex ankle fracture. The local hospital's scans were inconclusive about ligament damage. Dr. Dinçer conducted a tele-radiology consultation from Istanbul at midnight, guiding them through specific stress-view X-rays. Her precise remote interpretation allowed proper stabilization until I could be transferred, saving me from permanent instability.

My 91-year-old grandmother with dementia needed a biopsy for a suspicious lung nodule. Conventional CT guidance seemed impossible due to her confusion. Dr. Dinçer developed a 'quiet protocol' using abbreviated scans and audio cues from her favorite Turkish folk songs to keep her calm. The 7-minute procedure—half the usual time—was successful without sedation, and the benign result spared her unnecessary treatment.