 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | And they're pushing socialized medicine here - God help us! Only being given tylenol, for the procedures you have had, sounds barbaric and inhumane to me. It is a basic patient right to have your pain managed properly and the NCCN Oncology Practice Guidelines (noy that Canada is bound to follow it) has a specific section just for that. There are a lot of US citizens who want the health Canada type system here. I hope that they read your story. And you are being treated at their ONLY CCC! I get really angry when I hear of stories like yours.
Quit wishing and start demanding - don't let them get away with it!
Bill, 6 weeks is a typical phase out plan -I feel better now.
Last edited by Gary; 12-13-2008 11:57 PM.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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