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Jax1964
7 years agoMember
And it's certainly not exclusive to cancer.kmakm said:@Jax1964 I've been treated in the private system and have had a mixture of superb, good, inadequate and woeful care across three different hospitals. It seems to be luck of the draw wherever you are.
If you're making a podcast aimed specifically at newly diagnosed, they don't need to be distracted by flowery posters and sugar-coated smiling faces. It sets up false expectations which can only lead to disappointment - and someone who is a stunned mullet from the shock of diagnosis does not need more frustration piled on top.
There are already a dozen treacle-laced cancer podcasts without an ounce of reality, make something different.
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