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My first family doctor, son of a veteran family doctor in town(Father and Son had their own family clinic at that time), 'threatened' to give me a referral to a psychiatrist when I was complaining recurring headaches in 1989.
I chosed another family doctor who I was assigned to a couple of times when my family doctor was not available. The new one - possibly flattered by being chosen as a replacement - gave me all the referrals I asked for (though not without complaints - I was lucky to have a retired pathologist who was a volunteer at the library where I was working at the time to push me for further checking.) and eventually (another 8 months) got the mystery solved by a neurologist.
Yes, being a bad patient saved my life. Even the recurring breast cancer was sort of discovered by myself. I was so sick one week I had to be off for several days and then went to the weekend clinic. I found the lump before seeing this weekend doctor. But my mammogram and surgery were delayed and delayed. Finally, when they tried to delay my surgery again, I got on the phone with an oncologist friend (same hospital) and he helped me to push the surgery a week sooner.
The margin to my pectoralis muscle turned out to be just 0.5mm during the surgery. Had I not acted 'badly', I would have gotten myself a paralyzed right shoulder.
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http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2011/06/doctors-letter-patient-newly-diagnosed-cancer.html
http://www.asco.org/ASCOv2/MultiMedi...=114&trackID=2
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