Hi Eddie, I sympathise with you and your wife. Cancer is a horrible thing, in and of itself. Being jacked around by a bunch of semi-competent medical personnel is a horrible thing, too. Keep your eye on them, that's all the advice I can offer. FWIW, I specialize in medical malpractice, and the thing that scares me the most is the every day petty incompetence in hospitals, they just don't seem to have their act together when it comes to following up on things. I read a lot of hospital records, and see things that makes my hair curl, like a neurologist prescribing anticoagulants for a lady who is already taking anticoagulants. Good neurologist, too, but the records were not complete so she did not know the patient was on anticoagulants. The pharmacy did not give them to her, instead she got an overdose of something else. If I am ever hospitalized, I plan to bring a private duty nurse in with me.
That's probably unrealistic, not trying to scare you, but be pro-active, be an informed consumer, keep on them. It's the only way.
Here is the web site for the National Institute of Health's clinical trials page:
cancertrials.nci.nih.gov |
