Medical Industrial Complex

I know Athena- it bummed me out....the trip was a wash in many ways when i combine the food poisoning with general malaise:)

Germ-Infested Doctors Office Magazines Sell Purell

JWT Toronto has created an ambient campaign for its client Purell, a hand sanitizer lotion. The campaign uses a simple but what would seem to be effective approach by placing stickers on magazines in doctors offices with copy such as "Thumbed through by sick people since September 2005" and "Gently sneezed on since October 2002." The stickers point to a website, washyourhands.tv, which explains the benefits of Purell. Nice work.

@hillck: mine is too. it feels frightening to hear the uncertainty, but when you're working with a good doc, you still feel safer, knowing s/he will do the best for you. i guess it's the best we've got, for now!

ps: yes, you've arrived..LOL

Oh lets just say he looked at my upper half a little to intently. I was very glad my husband was in the room, that's all I will say. The BS asked my on Friday if I had had a follow up with that guy, and I sort of said no do you think I need to? Thank goodness he sid no.

Joining in to say how much I respect and appreciate all my doctors.  Feel sorry for people who have had a negative experience that they'd express blanket condemnation.  I've had doctors I didn't want to continue seeing, and so just went to a different doctor.

Feel blessed to be seeing the team of doctors, nurses, all the people I've interacted with at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.  Don't go to the acupuncturist there, because it's just too long a drive for me, so I see an ancupuncturist who lives near by.  Really could never understand why anyone would condemn a whole sector of society, when so many people in it do so much good.

hillck

that is SUCH a wonderful story, experience you've shared.  So happy for you to have had that result.  I too can remember the most wonderful empathy from all the people treating me.  Oncologists see so much that must be so painful for them, I often wondered how they could keep doing what they do, and still be able to welcome the next patient, being kind and HOPEFUL for each of us.  I especially appreciated the nurses in the infusion center - boy, they were angels, literally!

I think we can all agree that people shouldn't abuse prescription and OTC drugs.

We should probably stop and consider why med students would ever choose oncology as their specialty....I worked with many oncologists over the years in a teaching hospital.  Along with seeing patients, all were involved in either clinical or basic research (or both).  They weren't in it for the money -- if so, they would have chosen much more lucrative specialties.  And specialties where it's easy to treat a patient and tell her "You're cured", rather than "I'm so sorry, there are no more treatments available".

Well, I suppose maybe there are oncs who thrive on giving bad news -- fortunately, I've never met one.  There are also some who have never quite mastered the "art" of medicine and really don't deal with patients compassionately, even though they are themselves passionate about what they do.  

MOTC

echo of what Britchik said, just love reading your words!  No matter how many C&P's try to lead into a different world, your REALITY check is always welcome.

Hillck - I think so many of us feel the way you & I do.  After my last infusion, the nurse was cheering with me, laughing, and saying "I never want to see you again." with the widest smile on her face.  Just angels.  Also love the women who would come around and ask if I wanted a sandwich, or some fruit.  They never offered books, cuz I always had one, and the friend who was with me had a pile in her tote bag, along with our favorite crossword puzzles.  How those Angels made such a difficult experience, sometimes almost pleasant, still amazes me.

I could have sworn that this thread is in the Forum: Alternative, Complementary & Holistic Treatment.  In this forum, I would not normally expect to see post after post extolling the virtues of chemo and gushing over how wonderful oncologists are?????   Oh well...

Luan, I love your post about the "gently sneezed on" magazines in doctors' waiting rooms.  After years of dealing with kids coming down with "something" a couple of days after touching a toy or book at routine check ups, I always carry my own reading material, and try to touch as few surfaces in those waiting rooms as possible.  YUK!!!!!!

You,re in the right place Patmom. The owners of BCO saw fit to create this forum for like-minded BC sisters to congregate and exchange ideas and info. Have to wonder how they would react finding out that these threads are hijacked and civilized discussions are impossible.

apple, totally off topic, but just saw you here. Yesterday you had some pics of your kids on some forum no idea which, but must say you are well blessed with your family.

wonder who the "us" is?  This forum is for Complementary care too, implying that indiviuals will have other treatments and want to do othere things that might help -

there is a thread for Alternative/Holistic only, if that is what someone is looking for.  In a Forum which includes Complementary approaches, and may be visited by women new to BC.org, I think it makes good sense to try to have information that includes those not condemning all doctors, and their medicine.  

Those comments about women in the Stage IV Forum, are too hideous to even mention.  Just so sad anyone would write something like that in a board visited by women with bc - reagrdless of the Stage, but specially if they are Stage IV.  Just so savage.  Quite a contrast to the "c&P" used in other threads.  Hypocrisy? 

Watch that salty vocabulary CS if you don,t want to get reported
. We,ll just have to ask Leia to add the word ONLY in her OP. Problem solved !!