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The great thing about public forums is the variety of responses you get to pretty much any question. With luck, you will come up with a hybrid solution that suits your temperament and your circumstances. Main thing is, don't be shy. These people are just like your butcher, baker or candlestick maker--skilled but still dependent on your custom. Without you, there is no them. Don't stay with a service provider who doesn't provide the service you have paid for. Particularly if they have been careless enough to put you at a disadvantage.I'd be extremely angry and would be communicating that in a variety of ways. A good slap in the wallet or the reputation hurts them, a good vent helps me. Its a wide wild intersting world and we all find our own way through it. Mxx

That's a shame however it sounds like you have lost trust and that is an important aspect in our travels through the BC trauma. Back to GP for referral to somewhere else that is not connected with your present Onc.This is about you not the Onc

It’s things like this I wish young medical students as well as experienced doctors were made aware of. Being reminded they are dealing with vulnerable human beings .

Tell her she is a huge disappointment and has destroyed your faith in her profession. Tell her, by email, that you will not pay her another cent. Report her to the Clinical Oncology Society. I'd pick up the phone and tell her she is a ....well you can take your pick of any number of expletives that would get me moderated. We must not attack the sacred profession even when they behave in unconscionable ways. Which is why they get away with it.Give her a serve and get a referral to someone else who is not part of the same practice.

Onc. who failed to inform me fully

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Romla
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7 years ago
Re public v private. You can have your treatment as a blend of the two and I would next time go public for Radiotherapy and save an xcess of $2000 despite having top cover and I only had 16 rounds .
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kmakm
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7 years ago
@Joannie A two month wait at Stage 3 shocks me. Were you told that was normal?
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Kiwi_Angel
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7 years ago
@Aggie @kezmusc - disgusting isn’t it!! I keep a record of all my results too in my little folder that I carry to every appointment.
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Romla
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It’s things like this I wish young medical students as well as experienced doctors were made aware of. Being reminded they are dealing with vulnerable human beings .
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7 years ago
Hey @Aggie,

That's just not good enough is it? Definitely I would change onc's and I did. I was decidedly unhappy with the first oncologist that I saw right at the beginning. I did not like her attitude or total lack of empathy. So I go a new one.

As far as the reports go. You are entitled to ask for a copy of anything and everything. I have a complete set of every pathology result, scan results and bloods. If you don't ask, they wont offer. It will just stay in your manilla folder.

The only one I had an issue with is my 12 month MRI. As it had been ordered by the hospital the results went straight to them. My next review wasn't for 3 months. I wasn't going to wait that long for them so I rang my breast care nurse, she checked the results with my team and emailed me a copy within 10 minutes with the "all good".
@"Kiwi Angel" what happened to you is just disgusting. That should not happen to anyone, ever.
XOXOXO
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