M.D. Müjgan Orman

As a 72-year-old with persistent shoulder pain that baffled three other doctors, I was referred to Dr. Orman for a specialized musculoskeletal ultrasound. What struck me wasn't just her technical precision with the transducer, but how she explained each tendon and bursa on the screen as if showing me a roadmap of my own body. She discovered a subtle partial rotator cuff tear others had missed and recommended a targeted injection protocol that actually worked. Her follow-up scan six weeks later showed measurable healing. She treats elderly patients not as deteriorating machines but as complex landscapes worthy of careful mapping.

Our 8-year-old daughter needed an abdominal MRI after recurring stomach pains, and we were terrified about sedation and the loud machine. Dr. Orman met with us beforehand and showed her the MRI room, calling it a 'space camera' that would take pictures of her 'superhero insides.' She created a custom child-friendly audio guide that played during the scan, telling a story about exploring inner space. During the procedure, she monitored from her console while making eye contact and giving thumbs-up through the window. She diagnosed a rare mesenteric lymphadenitis and explained it to our daughter using cartoon drawings. This wasn't just imaging—it was pediatric care through radiology.

I arrived at Acibadem Maslak's emergency department at midnight with sudden, crushing chest pain. Dr. Orman was the on-call interventional radiologist when the CT angiogram revealed a dissecting aortic aneurysm—a true surgical emergency. Within 20 minutes, she was scrubbed in and performing an endovascular stent graft procedure. I was conscious enough to hear her calm, directive voice throughout: 'Now we're navigating past the renal arteries... excellent flow...' The precision of her catheter navigation felt like watching a master pianist. She saved my life not in an operating room but in the angiography suite, using live X-ray guidance as her eyes and catheters as her hands. Three months later, my follow-up CT shows perfect stent placement.

What began as a routine breast screening mammogram turned into a year-long journey with Dr. Orman as my guide. When she detected microcalcifications requiring biopsy, she performed the stereotactic procedure herself, explaining each click and whirr of the vacuum-assisted device. The diagnosis was DCIS, and she became my imaging quarterback—coordinating with surgeons, mapping the extent with contrast-enhanced MRI, and marking the boundaries with radioactive seeds for precise surgical removal. Her final post-lumpectomy mammogram felt like a graduation ceremony. She doesn't just read images; she creates continuity of care through them, turning what could be a fragmented process into a coherent narrative where each scan is a chapter.