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Doctors need some sort of outside quality control. What they have isn't working. I have been to two different doctors with the same problem several times. They finally got it right. When I told one of the doctors that he was wrong and we knew now what the problem was he just shrugged it off and said that he was rarely wrong. Well he was wrong four times. In my world if I do it wrong I don't get paid. If I did a portrait for him and it looked like someone else, would I get paid? If I faux finished the wrong room would I get paid? This is particularly important when you are on medicaid and are only allowed a certain number of visits per year. They get paid no matter how bad their performance is and even if they mess up bad enough for a lawsuit if just gets their insurance companies. Fight back.
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In the world of destiny, there are no statistics.
Jan. 26- mammogram and ultrasound- suspicious lump
Mid-February- lumpectomy, infiltrating ductal carcinoma ~4.5 cm and a 1 cm DCIS, did not get clear margins, did not check lymph nodes
ER+/PR+, her2 +++, nuclear grade 3 of 3
February 20-PET scan showed something on liver. No biopsy.
March- Started carboplatin, herceptin, taxol on a four week cycle
May 3- Pet scan, with intent to do a biopsy, found nothing, liver or breast- no biopsy because there is nothing to biopsy
June 21- new onc, very concerned that there had been no biopsy,
June 18th-CAT scan, bone scan-negative
August 7th - Brain MRI-negative
August 9th- mastectomy, all pathology negative
January 2008 still NED! New oncologist -herceptin for full year after chemo- until July, and tamoxifen---negative scans since May '07
July 2008-Finished Herceptin!
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