Re: JoAnn/Pick your Poison

[Bev MacLeod <wordways@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Someone should develop a workshop on "How to tell your doctor s/he might be
missing something in the way of research without having the doctor lose
control".  I have found that some doctors do not like informed people as
patients  Now I look for ways to give him my idea whilst still acting like a
character out of a 1929 movie -"gee, gosh golly, doctor, don't know birth
from babies, but do you think maybe ..........................  In every
profession we find those with egos that block their judgement.  Don't let
that stop you from letting him or her know what you feel.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rayilyn Brown" <RayilynLee@xxxxxxx>
To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 11:23 PM
Subject: Re: JoAnn/Pick your Poison


> JoAnn, the idea with my ovarian cancer chemo was to give me enough just
short
> of killing me.  If I had it to do over, I wouldn't have taken it, I think
my
> surgeon got it all.  Others on chemo died.
> Who really knows what to do?  I don't rely on the Dr.'s anymore and not
too
> many of them like me.  The primary Dr. I"m going back to said once,
without
> sarcasm, that "I'd probably be the first person to know if something new
came
> out for PD".  His ego is intact.
>
> I think the best thing to do is learn all you can and have the courage to
> make your own decisions since they can't cure us.  I'd be glad to follow
> orders if the treatments worked.  Rayilyn
>
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