Let me be
clear… there are a lot of people out there working
Cancer
Centers, Doctors, nurses, aides who are great. Who
work day
after day with great compassion for those in need.
And working
with those who have a 50/50 chance of not making it, can be
heartbreaking.. no matter how much objective you have. The nurses are
not.. stones..
But.. with
saying that… for the life of me.. I don’t understand
Cancer Centers. The decisions that are made. The times they make the
patient wait for not just hours but days or a week to get results
from a cat scan or MRI, or any other test, it seems almost cruel. Especially for those who seem to be at the
end of their
time.
I know there
are some centers out there, who are better at
returning
calls. But I have been close to a person who is fighting for her life.
She is in her 7th round with chemo or more.. for the past 7 years.
It really isn’t looking good at this point. There is something
going on that she wants to know what it is. She had a scan done
last Wednesday, and has not heard anything back from the
doctor. Doesn’t even have an appointment
with the doctor because he
only comes to our community one day a week. And it seems he
is the only one who can tell her what the
results are.
That seems
cruel to me. I know she has in the past called
for questions..
and was told a nurse will call her back. They didn’t. She has had
to call up to 3 times, before someone talked to her.
Sad, very
sad.
Of all the
patients in the health system, I think cancer patients deserve quicker
responses. Not only they are fighting for their lives, but worrying
about the uncertainly of it all.. make it worse.
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