Incompetent radiologists and doctors, EVERY TIME FOR YEARS!
This is why you need to be on top of your own health and treatment. Get second opinions or change up your doctor or even hospital.
There is no excuse for this!
I learned a very hard lesson about 2nd opinions.
One of the errors is relying too much on a surgeon’s reputation. I inherited one said to be one of the best in the city after my original one died unexpectedly.
The past three visits to get a repair procedure set up that no one else in medical land has any objections in all these months, I got another round of kick the can looking back.
I’d go in and he might talk to me for 5 or 10 minutes and say come back in a month after doing X study or something. I passed the ones I was supposed to.
The last time all of a sudden BMI is a major factor. He didn’t care before. I am a known quantity, I’ve only gotten stronger and improved.
On that visit, his sage wisdom consisted of just drop 40 pounds somehow and see you in November.
That visit ended like all the others feeling sandbagged and sucker punched then depressed for a couple of days.
I got a 2nd opinion from a top surgeon in a sort of unusual manner that I sort of met once. That was as much as I dared dream after all the setbacks. I was prepared for him to say the same thing.
He allowed my wife to come back into examination. The other guy was really good about rushing me out before I could get together mentally enough to even mention a conference call.
45 minutes later there was a surgical plan, recommended paleo diet which is yielding some results, a fair anatomy lesson, and a go for repairs.
We both could have cried in happiness leaving his office. All of that was just an unreal blessing.
Early October is for all the marbles.
The new guy has done about 100 of what I am slated for.
The sad thing is that surgery could have been done months ago. I didn’t get recommended to another one if it was a logistics problem or really not his area. Those would have worked well.
“Incompetent radiologists and doctors, EVERY TIME FOR YEARS!”
He didn’t seek help for the seizures till THIS year AND they found the tumor.
“There is no excuse for this!”
What is your excuse?
I was in a profession analogous to a radiologist. The difference in how a scan is read depends on the quality of the radiologist.
Seeking second and third opinions should not be dismissed.