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MA: So I wanted to ask you, as your, your career in medicine as a radiologist, what are some of the, I guess, medical advances that you've seen in your lifetime that sort of, you think made the biggest impact?

KB: Well, from the radiology standpoint, all the new machines that have come up, the CT scanner, the MRI scanner, and then the digitalization of everything so that I think the radiation exposure has been decreased, and there isn't all this darkroom wet stuff that we had to go through in the past.

MA: When did they start phasing that out, that system of, in the darkroom and developing the film?

KB: Well, I think it probably, it started after I retired. Probably not too long after I retired, there was all this computer stuff coming in and it was getting hard for me to understand the physics of some of the, the processes, and I thought, "Well, maybe it's time for me to retire."

MA: And what year did you, did you retire?

KB: I retired in 1991.

MA: And that's when you moved with your husband to Seattle?

KB: Right. I'm sorry, I didn't retire in, I retired in 1986, and I worked, I was a, I worked with the residents twice a month for a while until we moved, as a visiting doctor. And it was a very important part of my career, I think, was working with the residents and helping them learn radiology. I really enjoyed that part. I think I had a good relationship with most of the trainees.

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