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Dr. Linda Daniel spends much of her day in a small, dim office, lit only by the white glow of an x-ray viewer.
Part of her job is interpreting complex images of the breast called mammograms. Like a detective with a magnifying glass, she looks'for signs of the presence of an intruder —breast cancer.
As a radiologist, Dr. Daniel’s interaction with her patients is more indirect. She knows their names, but rarely sees them face to face.
The black and white x-ray films she studies look like blotches of shadows and light, a tangle of veins and tissue. There is little discemable to the untrained eye.
But Dr. Daniel has viewed thousands of these images during her 17 years with Fauquier Hospital.
Dr. Daniel’s awareness of breast cancer is only part professional.
“They say the number one risk factor for breast cancer is being a woman,” she says with an acknowledging grin. “As a woman, it’s something very personal for me.”
Dr. Daniel coordinates the mammography program at Fauquier Hospital. It was a responsibility she volunteered for because she is the only female on the hospital’s staff of nine radiologists.
As she views mammograms, it is not difficult for her to see beyond the
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