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Advice to Medical Students - your thoughts
Hi all, as a BCNA Community Liaison I have the opportunity to speak to a group of 2nd Year Medical Students at the University of Sydney next week as part of their Oncology Unit. The talk will focus o...
Hi just wanted to add one thing, when we went to see the early breast surgeon after we had seen him the first time and he ordered the staging scans, we sat down in front of him and after telling us that there was nothing he could do, did we know an oncologist!!! and the statistics were 7 years!!! no one should EVER be told this information in this manner, I agree with the advice of letting the students read all of these comments, some Doctors need to learn how to speak/deal with people, we have feelings and no one needs to be told they have a life expectancy of seven years before even seeing an oncologist!!!!
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