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Oct. 4th, 2011 07:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichI'm so frustrated I could just spit. In a few hours, I am supposed to visit the dermatologist and start trying to cure this thing on my shin. I've made two phone calls to my oncologist's office, trying to get some coordination between the two since the main treatment drug for one badly interacts with the other. They *can* be taken together, it's just that the patient needs special monitoring, which has to be done by the oncologist.
Who has not, once again, bothered to respond or indicate a damn thing. As if I'd never called. I feel like a fly buzzing around a sleeping head.
I'm going to call the clinic's office manager and talk with her (or rather, 'one of them' as there seems to be more than one) about getting my case switched to a different doctor. I don't think I can, as it is most likely that this one guy is the only guy in the area who handles my kind of cancer. But I've got to take some sort of action. I feel defeated and desperate. And after a week or so of trying to get some kind of answer, I end up crying. And still ignorant. It's bad enough to be ill with something like this but to have the only guy who can do anything about it totally ignore me, his patient... I don't know what else to do but become a pest. Except that no patient, calling for medical care or advice, should be 'a pest'. They should be a priority. I understand that I am not a top piority, there are other folks who need immeidate action, but over the course of a couple of days there should be some sort of response from the doctor's office.
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Will wonders never cease! I actually, on my third attempt to reach his specific nurse/secretary today, she answered the phone. I didn't get a message box, I got a person! And she put me through to the doctor - who knew exactly what I was calling about. He just hadn't sent any kind of reply. Which was, "Oh! You mean you'll be taking this for longer than a week or two? Oh! Well, I'll need to get in touch with someone at one of the major treatment centers and see what they say.""
Who has not, once again, bothered to respond or indicate a damn thing. As if I'd never called. I feel like a fly buzzing around a sleeping head.
I'm going to call the clinic's office manager and talk with her (or rather, 'one of them' as there seems to be more than one) about getting my case switched to a different doctor. I don't think I can, as it is most likely that this one guy is the only guy in the area who handles my kind of cancer. But I've got to take some sort of action. I feel defeated and desperate. And after a week or so of trying to get some kind of answer, I end up crying. And still ignorant. It's bad enough to be ill with something like this but to have the only guy who can do anything about it totally ignore me, his patient... I don't know what else to do but become a pest. Except that no patient, calling for medical care or advice, should be 'a pest'. They should be a priority. I understand that I am not a top piority, there are other folks who need immeidate action, but over the course of a couple of days there should be some sort of response from the doctor's office.
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Will wonders never cease! I actually, on my third attempt to reach his specific nurse/secretary today, she answered the phone. I didn't get a message box, I got a person! And she put me through to the doctor - who knew exactly what I was calling about. He just hadn't sent any kind of reply. Which was, "Oh! You mean you'll be taking this for longer than a week or two? Oh! Well, I'll need to get in touch with someone at one of the major treatment centers and see what they say.""
