Congratulations! I questioned all medications and stopped taking half of them because of side effects. I’m healthier and feel so much better now. Never trust a doctor without question.
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You'd be surprised by how little doctors and healthcare workers actually know or keep up with these days. It's best to at least check things yourself with AI. Within a year or two AI will definitely be heads and shoulders over all but the very best doctors.
I lived in NL for 8 years before coming back to California and it happens over there a lot. More than here.
But yeah sometimes our intuition is better than what the doctor says. For sure. That's why doctor shopping is a thing.
It’s a catchy headline, but a little unfair to characterize the doctor as incompetent or inattentive. For something this rare it was impossible to suspect cancer based on the available information at the time. Furthermore, having the biopsy three weeks later would very likely not have changed the outcome. I totally agree with the need for physicians to be compassionate and to follow your own intuition. However, in this case the first doctor did recommend the proper course of action and the timeline was appropriate based on all information know at that time. Most doctors have a very strong desire to help patients achieve the best outcome, but they are not omniscient. Unrealistic expectations of perfection in this age of institutional distrust leads otherwise very compassionate physicians to leave medicine.
Well, I don't think it's reasonable to have to wait a month to do exploratory tests when a radiologist says it's a concern and definitely not bc a doctor is on vacation and there are other Drs available at the practice AND when the patient is clearly in tears and concerned despite the DR trying very hard telling her not to be, MOSTLY bc she's going out of town. The point of the article is to take women more seriously so we don't die. And I do believe a month w an aggressive cancer like that does in fact matter bc it wouldn't just be a month, the exploratory procedure was in a month and how much longer for the results and all the appointments that follow, she saved her own life.
Well, if it wasn’t for my doctor, I’d be dead right now. Then there are the daily road raging drivers on my commute to and from work where a lot of other drivers also avoid unwarranted attacks on their lives by these nuts.
If I'd listened to my mother, I be a doctor right now.
"After my diagnosis, my entire world turned upside down. It was an onslaught of appointments, scans, and hard bathroom-floor crying."
Is this why women are so much more fastidious about bathroom floor cleanliness? I do my heavy duty crying on my couch or in my bed.
I listened to my heart doctors after a cancer
operation, they said I had a major heart artery obstruction. Saved my life!