Comments on: The Good Outcome - An Allegory http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/ This blog has moved on to ScienceBlogs - come and check it out! Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:25:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: kathy http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1623 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:45:17 +0000 http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1623 whoops, forgot to delete what I had edited earlier -- chemo brain -- sorry. whoops, forgot to delete what I had edited earlier — chemo brain — sorry.

]]> by: kathy http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1622 Tue, 21 Feb 2006 20:41:16 +0000 http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1622 The professor didn't say he'd get them home, he said he'd help them. He didn't say he'd do it for them. I was diagnosed HCV positive in late 2004. I was given the option to take treatment or not. I set about to find out everything I could about the condition and the treatment, and when I felt I knew just enough to be dangerous, I decided to do it. No one conned me -- my doctor and nurse gave me good reasons to do it and I made an informed choice. Well, 48 weeks later, it did not produce the desired result. My doctor and my nurse took it a LOT harder than I did. We were partners in this trip, and I found it kind of funny when I patted George on the arm and said "Stop taking it so hard....we knew the risks when we started". To think that any doctor would 'con' someone into chemo is ludicrous. I'm not a doctor, but I've always wanted to be. I just finished 48 weeks of therapy for HCV and it did not produce the desired result. I took it nowhere NEAR as hard as my doctor and my nurse. I knew the odds when I began the treatment because I made the effort to find out what the odds were on my own. I know it's a little bit of a shock and it's scarey when you 'wake up in a strange place', but The professor didn’t say he’d get them home, he said he’d help them. He didn’t say he’d do it for them.

I was diagnosed HCV positive in late 2004. I was given the option to take treatment or not. I set about to find out everything I could about the condition and the treatment, and when I felt I knew just enough to be dangerous, I decided to do it. No one conned me — my doctor and nurse gave me good reasons to do it and I made an informed choice.

Well, 48 weeks later, it did not produce the desired result. My doctor and my nurse took it a LOT harder than I did. We were partners in this trip, and I found it kind of funny when I patted George on the arm and said “Stop taking it so hard….we knew the risks when we started”.

To think that any doctor would ‘con’ someone into chemo is ludicrous.

I’m not a doctor, but I’ve always wanted to be. I just finished 48 weeks of therapy for HCV and it did not produce the desired result. I took it nowhere NEAR as hard as my doctor and my nurse. I knew the odds when I began the treatment because I made the effort to find out what the odds were on my own.

I know it’s a little bit of a shock and it’s scarey when you ‘wake up in a strange place’, but

]]> by: HS, MD http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1603 Sun, 12 Feb 2006 06:14:25 +0000 http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1603 Thanks so much for sharing this. It is a very difficult thing we do as oncologists, but I think we all try to be as direct as possible in the very beginning that we will do our best but may not know the way to a cure/home. I doubt that the story was meant to imply that oncologists "con" patients into taking chemotherapy -- this does not benefit us in any way. I and my colleagues make sure that patients have given informed consent prior to starting any chemotherapy regimen. Thanks so much for sharing this. It is a very difficult thing we do as oncologists, but I think we all try to be as direct as possible in the very beginning that we will do our best but may not know the way to a cure/home. I doubt that the story was meant to imply that oncologists “con” patients into taking chemotherapy — this does not benefit us in any way. I and my colleagues make sure that patients have given informed consent prior to starting any chemotherapy regimen.

]]> by: angela, R.N. http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1557 Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:18:20 +0000 http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1557 what a sweet story! and darling robert frost! this is an example of how people are conned into accepting chemotherapy when alternatives are available [read Toni Jeffries, Crow's Nest Books]. As for the doctor lying about his uncertainty of a positive outcome! ethics? ha! what a sweet story! and darling robert frost! this is an example of how people are conned into accepting chemotherapy when alternatives are available [read Toni Jeffries, Crow’s Nest Books]. As for the doctor lying about his uncertainty of a positive outcome! ethics? ha!

]]> by: Sarah Trejo http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1553 Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:14:27 +0000 http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1553 This is absolutely excellent. Thank you for sharing this. This is absolutely excellent. Thank you for sharing this.

]]> by: GruntDoc http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1549 Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:40:18 +0000 http://thecheerfuloncologist.blogsome.com/2006/01/16/92/#comment-1549 <strong>MedBlogs Grand Rounds 2:17</strong> MedBlogs Grand rounds features the best writing about medical topics in the blogosphere, brought to you weekly with rotating hosts. Though the topics are medical, the posters do not need to be for consideration. Without further ado, a quick announcemen... MedBlogs Grand Rounds 2:17

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