I'm not impressed!
TL;DR - If you are a patient at public hospital in Brisbane, check your mammogram & ultrasound appointments. They may no longer be there. I had my second year mammogram and ultrasound today. It s...
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Despite being Stage 3 at diagnosis I waited for 2 months to have surgery in the public hospital system, the process was so slow and finally after all the planning was done then I was a Category 1, so they had to do surgery then within 28 days. But to get to have all the tests Is so slow, makes me wonder how they get away with it. It is so wrong, and this happens more frequently than we like to admit. I didn't die, and I didn't end up with Stage 4, but from the time of diagnosis until I eventually started my 18 months of active treatment was 4 months from my diagnosis. Note, being Stage 3 and in lymph nodes as discovered by BreastScreen I should have been automatically a Category 1.
@KarynJ sorry to hear of your experience and @youngdogmum is correct this goes on, exactly what you are saying goes on more than people will acknowledge, unless it personally happens to them. Also I was told that they don't talk in terms of Stage 3, but this is misleading because some surgeons will use this terminology and some won't, I believe it is to cover themselves. I do feel sorry for the surgeons working within the limits of the public system, not their fault, just lack of funding. I hope you get a good result and follow up with this @KarynJ All the best, take care.
@KarynJ sorry to hear of your experience and @youngdogmum is correct this goes on, exactly what you are saying goes on more than people will acknowledge, unless it personally happens to them. Also I was told that they don't talk in terms of Stage 3, but this is misleading because some surgeons will use this terminology and some won't, I believe it is to cover themselves. I do feel sorry for the surgeons working within the limits of the public system, not their fault, just lack of funding. I hope you get a good result and follow up with this @KarynJ All the best, take care.