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I saw my oncologist today. I see him once a month while on adjuvant Herceptin. He has always aggrevated me because he has ABSOLUTELY no memory. He is also very conservative and I have to tell him everything and prove everything. The most aggrevating thing is the memory (he is only 46 so its not old age dementia!!!!). I know this sounds trivial but I must have seen this man over 30 times (monthly or bimonthly) and he always asks if I have kids and their ages. We have kids that go to school together and know each other. Also, our oldest kids just went off to college in Sept 04 when I got diagnosed and we talked many times about that (change in family etc). Everytime he asks, I tell him the same thing and he REALLY is hearing it for the first time. So I figure, he's forgetting about me medically as well.
I have had one of his colleagues when he was on vacation twice. Both times was a joy and this other doctor says hello to me by name if he sees me. He is also much more intelligent than my doctor. I have meant to switch many times but somehow always talk my current onco into what I want (although this other doctor is giving his breast cancer patients herceptin as an adjuvant too).
Have any of you changed doctors and especially within the same practice? I feel funny about it (cuz my doctor is a nice guy but I am not so sure about his smarts). How did you go about it.
Lastly, if any of you read my thread about my recent uterine biopsy - it was benign with not even any aplasia let alone hyperplasia.
Thanks for listening
Becky
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