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belle · 05-25-2010, 03:35 PM

Dear Fullofbeans,

I am very sorry to hear about your recurrence and do understand how you feel re Dr's negligence.

My mom's onc was sick at her 3 months checkup and there was another young guy substituting our Dr. He seemed shallow when palpating mom's breast, chest and lymphnodes. Just said we can go and come back if any symptoms occur. I did sense a moment of doubt in him when he was touching mom's axilla. Mom felt a bit offended by this cold reception and after 3 weeks noticed a lump on her chest herself. Had that substituteDr been more competent at detecting the nodes, mom wouldn't have had unpleasant symptoms now.

Unfortunately, such human factors put us at more risk and I guess we need to be more proactive ourselves at pushing the Drs for more checkups when we want them.

05-25-2010, 03:35 PM	#3
belle Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 46	Re: some people get all the luck-Not- Dear Fullofbeans, I am very sorry to hear about your recurrence and do understand how you feel re Dr's negligence. My mom's onc was sick at her 3 months checkup and there was another young guy substituting our Dr. He seemed shallow when palpating mom's breast, chest and lymphnodes. Just said we can go and come back if any symptoms occur. I did sense a moment of doubt in him when he was touching mom's axilla. Mom felt a bit offended by this cold reception and after 3 weeks noticed a lump on her chest herself. Had that substituteDr been more competent at detecting the nodes, mom wouldn't have had unpleasant symptoms now. Unfortunately, such human factors put us at more risk and I guess we need to be more proactive ourselves at pushing the Drs for more checkups when we want them.