I would like to get some opinions about if I need to follow up on this situation and if so, how? After treatment yesterday, the radiation tech said, "see you tomorrow - the last one!" I said "that would be nice, but I don't think so, we have 16 more." She seemed puzzled, and murmured, oh, I'll have to check, I must be thinking of someone else." Today, following treatment, my husband stayed to see the RO for the weekly consult. The RO asked why they didn't weigh him, and my husband said they did, and upon looking further, the RO realized he didn't have the right chart. Then upon completion of the exam, he told my husband some adjustments needed to be made, if he wouldn't mind going back to the treatment room, that it would just take about 10 minutes. This was after he already had his daily treatment. After about 1/2 hour, my husband got tired of waiting and asked someone what the hold up was - they went to check - came back and said they needed to check with the RO about something - but when they didn't come back soon, he flagged another tech down, and she went to check and came back and said they decided they couldn't do the adjustments today. About that time, I came back from being in another part of the hospital having an upper GI, and they were explaining to me that he would have to come tomorrow for CT scans at 1:30 PM. I said he just had them done last week, which she seemed puzzled about, but then looked at his chart and saw that he did in fact have them done last monday, March 6. But she said it wasn't unusual to have them done again that soon because things change quickly. I accepted that and we went on over to get some lab work. On the way out I saw the RO and confirmed that we would be coming back tomorrow for CT scans, and asked if treatment would still be done, because we didn't want to prolong the completion. He said that treatment would be done as well. Before lab work was done, we got paged to come back and see the RO, and he came right out as soon as we got back over there, apologized, said he was upset with the techs that the CT's weren't scheduled for today and that there was another mix-up (this wasn't the first time they had forgotton to schedule them). He did say the responsibility was ultimately his for not making sure.
He proceeded to tell us to come at 10:30 for the CT scans (not 1:30 which we had just been told) and that after he got them back and mapped out a new plan, he would call us to come back up for treatment tomorrow afternoon.
Anyway, I am starting to feel as if perhaps they have been treating my husband based on erroneous information, first because of what the tech said about 1 more treatment, then the RO looking at the wrong chart, then CT's being done again so soon (one week) again. Should we be concerned? and if so, how to go about questioning the RO. I always feel like we are at their mercy and while I am not afraid to ask questions, I am intimidated to do so if it seems as I am accusing them of not knowing what they are doing. The more I think about this, the more upset I am becoming.
Thanks for your opinions.
Michele