Support needed from health professionals during treatment and beyond
This discussion was created from comments split from: Early Days on Letrozole.
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It is amazing how many people still have never heard of this forum. I speak with the BCN's regularly and tell them how invaluable it is that people know about it. They have started passing the information on (not sure how often) but probably didn't quite realise how therapeutic it can be just to speak with people that "get it". To know you are not the "odd" one and to hear from others further down the track.
I think education definitely needs improving. While the doctors and nurses may be clinically excellent I guess they can't really see the other side unless they are made aware and it should start in med school/nursing school.
I remember the day I got my diagnosis. My GP, just pointed to the QML results. Right at the bit that said "highly suspicious for metastatic breast cancer" said "that's cancer."......and promptly ran out the door to find my husband (who had gone to the loo while we were waiting) so I was just left sitting there trying to comprehend what I had just been told until she got back with him. Don't think she had had to tell too many people that sort of thing.
I think education definitely needs improving. While the doctors and nurses may be clinically excellent I guess they can't really see the other side unless they are made aware and it should start in med school/nursing school.
I remember the day I got my diagnosis. My GP, just pointed to the QML results. Right at the bit that said "highly suspicious for metastatic breast cancer" said "that's cancer."......and promptly ran out the door to find my husband (who had gone to the loo while we were waiting) so I was just left sitting there trying to comprehend what I had just been told until she got back with him. Don't think she had had to tell too many people that sort of thing.