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Old 12-16-2008, 10:35 AM   #9
Believe51
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Talking Hey Sarah

Although I do not like to say a bad word about anyone I must say that I was not overly impressed, but this is not a rather fair assumption. I know doctors are busy there trying to save lives but she read his complete complicated journey in 5 minutes, gave a quick physical and made her judgements (which is why we were there). We felt rushed and cheated that day. Hope I am not being too critical since we really did like her. We already had a treatment plan in the back of our heads and when we went there and Dr Lin basically agreed with what we already felt was the direction we needed to head. She discussed the other possible options that we could explore and those too were in the back of our minds. It is not fair for me to judge her fully since we do not have her in our journey; we did enjoy her personality and spirit. Generally speaking we did like her as a whole. She is a very educated woman who focuses alot of her time to mets and clinical trials at Dana Faber. All in all, we went there for a second opinion about our next course of action and she did just that, rushed or not. Ed and I will be back and he will be seeing Dr Winer, which was the doctor who originally was supposed to meet with us.

It pleases me to see that she is your doctor, I hope you are happy with her. Her education and demeanor, I feel is for the best in your journey. She will guide you assertively to where you need to be. Hang tough Sarah. And every time we go there we will be thinking of you!! Smiling>>Believe51
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