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Reggie3
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5 years ago

DCIS - Breast marker missed in initial surgery

Hello, I was recently diagnosed with intermediate grade DCIS left breast presenting as a stellate lesion (1.4cm), apparently the usual presentation is calcifications. I had a wide local incision ju...
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Emma17
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5 years ago
@Reggie3 Your gut instinct that 'something is not adding up' is key.  We're not Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) like our doctors but we have common sense and life experience.  When we sense discordance and that 1+1=3, that means something's wrong.  It's our gut instinct.  Go with it. 

Discordance and skirting the truth ultimately exposed my treatment team and I fired one of them by letter with cc: to the others and a copy to my GP for his/her records.