M.D. Güzi̇de Özdil

As an 82-year-old with chronic kidney issues, I needed a very specific renal artery Doppler ultrasound. Most radiologists rush through it, but Dr. Özdil was different. She spent nearly an hour with me, explaining each swooshing sound on the speaker, showing me the color flow maps on her monitor, and adjusting her technique based on my breathing. She discovered a subtle stenosis others had missed for years. Her report was so detailed my nephrologist called it 'a masterpiece of diagnostic clarity.' She treated me not as a scan, but as a whole person.

Our 6-year-old daughter fractured her elbow in a playground fall. At midnight in Acibadem Atakent's ER, she was terrified of the 'big camera.' Dr. Özdil didn't just perform the X-ray; she performed magic. She showed my daughter a cartoon about 'bone pictures,' let her press a button on the machine, and spoke to her about her favorite cartoon characters throughout. The images were perfectly positioned despite the tears. We got a diagnosis immediately, and our daughter left asking when she could visit the 'picture doctor' again. This transformed a traumatic event into a bearable one.

I'm a 45-year-old software engineer with a family history of abdominal aortic aneurysm. My routine screening MRI with Dr. Özdil was anything but routine. She noticed an anomalous vessel branching pattern near my celiac axis—an incidental finding unrelated to my screening purpose. Instead of just noting it, she pulled up a 3D reconstruction on her workstation, drew me a simple diagram on paper, and explained why it mattered for future surgical planning. She then personally called my GP to discuss it. This wasn't a checkup; it was a masterclass in proactive, preventative care. I feel medically mapped.

Following a complex Whipple procedure for pancreatic cancer, my follow-up CT scans were always anxiety-ridden. Dr. Özdil's approach revolutionized this. For my latest scan, she compared seven previous studies side-by-side on her large monitor, pointing out not just the absence of recurrence, but the precise, millimeter-by-millimeter healing of surgical margins and the restored fat planes. She used terms like 'beautiful fibrosis' and 'perfect anatomic reconstitution.' Her verbal report to my surgeon was a confident, real-time analysis. She doesn't just read images; she interprets a healing narrative, turning my scan from a source of fear into a document of hope.