[Becky]

Dear Kimberly



I do not live in your area but in August, after 10 months, I switched oncologists (and my new onco is one of my old onc's partners). I was very confident in my switch and my new onc is probably the best doctor I will ever have in my life for anything (and I interviewed 5 doctors before picking the deadbeat I had the first time. And.... first onc is my mom's onc). I will say one thing though - the onc I switched from acts like an 8 grade boy who was jilted at the graduation dance. And that's every time I see him which is every 3 weeks in the hall when I go get my herceptin. Sometimes my mom comes with me to keep me company and he will talk to her and not even acknowledge me (not look at me, not say hi, sometimes will even talk loudly at the nurses station so everyone will look at him (including me) and when I look, he looks away). My mom says its because he is embrassed I switched and mad too. This is very annoying to me. And, regardless what people will tell you, it is hard to take. I am done with my year of Herceptin in mid June so it will not be as bad then but I didn't expect this (at least not for so long as I have been with the new onc now 7 months). Like you, I felt I was an annoyance to my first onc with the questions (but he would never talk) and he made MISTAKES - what could have been serious mistakes - 3 different ones. And he couldn't remember anything - nothing at all.



I will say, although I have the best doctor, I probably should have taken alittle time and found another best doctor in another practice (because of how depressing my first onc's behavior towards me is). But my advice is, once you have realized you need to switch doctors, there is no turning back and the situation doesn't get better. I was always saying to myself that the next appointment would be better and then it wasn't and I would be so disappointed and upset that I would go home and cry (and that isn't me at all - ask Maryanne!!!)



Hope this helps

Best regards, Becky