Monday, February 22, 2021

My Oncologist is Command & Control


My Gastrointestinal Doctor, after ordering a colonoscopy, an Upper GI, an Ultra Sound and a HIDA scan made the determination that everything was "A" OK; however, one of these procedures revealed that there was a lesion on my liver and suggested that I undergo an MRI to get a more detailed look at the lesion.  I contracted my Oncologist because I did not want more than one doctor recommending my direction to avoid confusion and since my Oncologist was basically in control of my health decided to defer everything to him.

Last Friday, I received a letter from my Gastrointestinal doctor that the lesion on my liver had not shown up in my last PET scan.  I found this to be curious as this doctor was inside inside the University System and had no access to those records and I did not authorize any records be sent to him that I recall.

In a couple of days, I will be meeting with my Oncologist and will take this letter from my Gastrointestinal doctor to share with my Oncologist so that I can get to the bottom of this uncertainty and decide which way that I should do.

This is the problem when a patient has more than one doctor recommending direction.

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