Doctors

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I've been to so many doctors visits, scans, & tests for my Mom and

then her surgery for axillary dissection/port cath placement Friday,

that I've had it with high and mighty doctors.

Hospital persons not knowing what the hell was going on from

department to department, I mean even having missing test results

from her folder when going into her partial mastectomy, paging the

surgeon that never responded or came to talk to me, and the same

surgeon who told her when taking out the stitches from her partial

mastectomy, " oh, and you have cancer " . She had no family with her,

he gave her no info other than that. The first hospital stay was

such a fiasco that my Mom had written a letter stating her

disappointment in the staff and surgeon etc.

She than made an appointment with a new surgeon whom we saw and had

liked his demeanor. Then, when she needed to have the axillary

dissection/port cath placement, the surgeon she had switched to went

into the hospital himself, so she had to choose whether to wait for

the operation or have the first prick do the surgery.

Because her cancer is agressive, I told her she she go ahead and

have it done. The blunt surgeon has no couth but is skilled. So,

with nerves jangling she goes in Friday to have surgery. The staff

wouldn't let me go with her to preop area because of renovations the

hospital is making. The jerk of a surgeon decided to use that time

right before she was to go under the knife to tell her that he

didn't understand why she was upset or wrote the letter. He said " I

told you it might be cancer " My Mom held up her hand and he got the

hint but WHAT AN AS****E!

I saw him afterwards and I swear that if I did not know what

questions to ask, this guy wouldn't have told me squat! The hard

part right now is my Mom having nightmares about him, waiting for

the CT, Bone scan & pathology reports that we'll get Tuesday at

Mom's follow-up appointment with the jerk. It has been hard to

figure out what the plan of action is when the primary Doctor says

one thing, then the Surgeon says something else, the Onycologist

tells us what he plans to do, then they only give her referals for

two of three tests he recomended, he told us they would take out a

few lymph nodes, and then the surgery was something much more than

that. I think when these doctors concur on a course of treatment,

they forget to let the patient in on their plans. There's more to

the story than that but I'll stop here.

Kim