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My sister's tentative diagnosis metastatic cancer
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<blockquote data-quote="seriously" data-source="post: 461762" data-attributes="member: 11920"><p>I completely agree about the whole specialist thing.</p><p></p><p>However I expect every doctor to act with discretion when they disagree with another specialist's diagnosis. </p><p></p><p>In other words = argue and disagree with the other doctor. Don't tell the patient your pet theories, especially when you are talking life and death stuff like this, undermining the patient's relationship with the primary treating doctor/specialist and causing unnecessary emotional distress. Not without a ton of evidence to back you up. Which the pain specialist most certainly does not have.</p><p></p><p>Jeez. You would think they would have figured that out by the time they got out of medical school.</p><p></p><p>My sister told me that she has one nurse on staff who is being helpful in trying to get the oncologist to come see my sister and talk to her directly. The night shift nurse has such a heavy accent that I cannot understand 90% of what she says unless I get her to slow way down. Which she does for one sentence and then we are back to nonsense - lovely musical intonations - but still nonsense from my brain's perspective. Unfortunately my sister can't understand her either and she is the one who told me and my sister (eeked out in sentences of 4 words or less) that there was no problem with the CT scan that first day. So I have not made any attempt to get her to help and neither has my sister.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seriously, post: 461762, member: 11920"] I completely agree about the whole specialist thing. However I expect every doctor to act with discretion when they disagree with another specialist's diagnosis. In other words = argue and disagree with the other doctor. Don't tell the patient your pet theories, especially when you are talking life and death stuff like this, undermining the patient's relationship with the primary treating doctor/specialist and causing unnecessary emotional distress. Not without a ton of evidence to back you up. Which the pain specialist most certainly does not have. Jeez. You would think they would have figured that out by the time they got out of medical school. My sister told me that she has one nurse on staff who is being helpful in trying to get the oncologist to come see my sister and talk to her directly. The night shift nurse has such a heavy accent that I cannot understand 90% of what she says unless I get her to slow way down. Which she does for one sentence and then we are back to nonsense - lovely musical intonations - but still nonsense from my brain's perspective. Unfortunately my sister can't understand her either and she is the one who told me and my sister (eeked out in sentences of 4 words or less) that there was no problem with the CT scan that first day. So I have not made any attempt to get her to help and neither has my sister. [/QUOTE]
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