Prayers up for Mr Douglas.
Life isn’t always fair, just luck or unlucky. Prayers Up!
Life isn’t always fair, just lucky or unlucky. Prayers Up!
The latest failure was when I took my husband to the doctor for terrible, persistent pain in his upper thigh. The doctor told him it was tendinitis. I told him to go back in and the tell the doctor to guess again. My husband refused, mainly because he was happy to hear that it was nothing serious. A year later, when he went for his physical, he told the doctor that the pain had gotten worse. The doctor ordered an x-ray and had the nurse call us on New Years Eve to tell us that it was a bone tumor. That same doctor was treating some friends of ours. He retired this summer and the friends chose a new doctor. That doctor found that their daughter, who is nine, has a 17% curvature of the spine and needs immediate treatment, that the other doctor missed. I could go on and on and on. My family has had more missed diagnosis (what's the plural of that word?) and wrong diagnosis (sp?) than right ones. Some have been fatal.
I had a similar situation in my family. Went to Dr. after Dr after Dr trying to find out what was wrong - only to find out that it was Stage 4 cancer that had spread to the bones and the brain .
I don’t care how big of a lib Douglas is...I feel for the family.
All that money and the Big C got him at Stage 4.
Amazing how every actor that comes down with cancer or some other debilitating disease is always so angry that nobody diagnosed it soon enough to help them...
Maybe their GOD complex should prevent them from dying like the rest of us, eh? Or maybe, just maybe, their NARCISTIC self importance ego makes them so difficult to give bad news to that their high paid doctors are TERRIFIED OF giving them bad news, eh?
Shame about Douglas, but I never cared for the womanizer anyway and his trophy wife will find another rich actor a day after the funeral.
I would also be very angry. It is our responsibility to advocate for ourselves.
Doctors can be honestly wrong, and if they are any sort of doctor at all, they shouldn't have an issue with the patient or his/her representative saying "I need a second opinion" or "I know that there is something wrong. Please check again".
I had more than 15 years of debilitating, painful symptoms because doctors never looked any further than what seemed to be the "simple" answer.
It all finally ended when a surgeon, of all people, picked up on what I was saying rather than what the symptoms seemed to point to, and diagnosed me without any tests at all. Genetic, blood, and tissue tests affirmed her diagnosis. She solved a problem that at least a dozen other doctors overlooked. Since then (2.5 years ago) I've been getting steadily better.
Always advocate for yourself. No one else is going to do it.