Three hundred pages,
read by hand.
Some things should never have been done by hand. They were done by hand anyway — every form typed from scratch, twelve weeks of expert time spent on transcription instead of on the trial. Then an amendment lands, and much of it is done again.
That part is over.
Protocol becomes structure. Structure becomes forms. Forms become a study build — most of it from libraries you have already approved.
Eight weeks of typing, gone.
Eighteen years of judgment, kept.
What has not changed is who signs it: the same clinical experts, reading every line before it moves.