This chapter is dedicated to identifying questions about the patient, the disease, the treatment, and the logistics of surgery that the orthopedic surgeon can ask the medical oncologist to reduce mistakes and miscommunications. This chapter is a framework for efficient, effective communication between ...
BEFORE you schedule any radiation therapy appointments to treat your cancer, there are 10 questions you need to ask your doctor. These questions are meant to empower you to take control of your health and have a clear understanding of the cancer treatment being offered. ...
Are there any questions your patients frequently ask you that you would like to address? I think people want to know about the probability of success with any individual recommendation. They want to know about the side effects that they may have. They want to know what type of burden the ...
I suppose it might be too prosaic to ask how many + PCRs actually go on to get ill? By any sane standard this testing is a scandalous waste of money,manpower and anxiety expended. Ah…a good way of curing NHS bulges…. Wait until people actually become sick!! And there may not ha...
One surgeon and one oncologist declined to participate, saying they were too busy, leaving three surgeons and one oncologist. Of the four physician respondents, two were women and two were men. All had been referred by rural community resource center trainees. How many train...
Advocates of the present system (doctors and the AMA) ask if you’d be willing to risk your life with a doctor who didn’t know calculus, but every day we risk our lives with products designed and built by people who don’t have PhD’s. Is it reasonable to buy a car (an item wh...
JAMA Oncology Tobacco Industry Exaggerates - The tobacco industry's favorite argument against tobacco tax increases and other policies to reduce tobacco use is that such measures will cause an increase in the illicit tobacco market. A new report finds that tobacco "industry-sponsored estimates of th...