 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,293 Likes: 1 | [quote=davidcpa]Better safe than sorry!
I went to 5 different docs and if I had stopped after 3 of them I would be dead today. The 3rd BTW is a well respected MO who actually shook my hand and said "Congratulations David YOU DON'T HAVE CANCER." My wife was the one that wouldn't let that go and tricked me into seeing doc #4, an ENT, who did a FNA and BOOM Stage IV SSC. [/quote]Thank goodness instances of missed diagnosis are infrequent but the topic does appear enough to be worrisome.
Isn't a trained ENT supposed to know what SCC looks like via a scope? How does one pass through several doctors and each misses the diagnosis?
I'm just curious as the words incompetence rarely is typed in posts here but one wonders why something not all that rare is just plain missed!!
Last edited by donfoo; 09-18-2013 08:21 AM.
Don Male, 57 - Great health except C Dec '12 DX: BOT SCC T2N2bMx, Stage 4a, HPV+, multiple nodes 1 tooth out Jan '13 2nd tooth out Tumor Board -induction TPF (3 cycles), seq CRT 4-6/2013 CRT 70gr 2x35, weekly carbo150 ended 5/29,6/4 All the details, join at http://beatdown.cognacom.com | 
