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Dr. Answer
Hello,
I deleted my original message so the posts that follow don't make a lot of sense. I did a bit of research on the doctors available to me at Froedtert and Medical College and am a bit confused. Well, not really confused but it all seems maybe too obvious to me and maybe I'm not understanding it all as well as I should.
The doctor that will be replacing my oncologist is an internal medicine doctor and assistant professor of medicine. According to his bio on the Froedtert website his care emphasis is "in-patient med" and he is not board certified. The other 2 doctors that were not offered to me but may be who I switch too are both board certified, both have their top care emphasis as breast cancer, one trained at Baylor and MD Anderson and the other is a 2006/2007 Best Doctors by his peers. Seems like a no brainer to me that it should be the latter 2 as my choice.
I do have an e-mail out to my uncle who is a hospital administrator and has ways of getting this type of information and tomorrow I will be calling my nurse practitioner to question her about this. I kind of feel as if I was given the "short straw" as I am an early stager with NED and all my current oncologists stage 3 and 4 patients will be referred to the latter two docs.
Does board certification mean a better doctor? I "asked jeeves" about this and the answer wasn't very definitive. It pretty much said that board certification can be a bit deceiving. ?????
Thanks,
Mary Jo
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Dx. 6/24/05 age 45 Right Breast IDC ER/PR. Neg., - Her2+++ RB Mast. - 7/28/05 - 4 cm. tumor Margins clear - 1 microscopic cell 1 sent. node No Vasucular Invasion 4 DD A/C - 4 DD Taxol & Herceptin 1 full year of Herceptin received every 3 weeks 28 rads prophylactic Mast. 3/2/06
17 Years NED
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