Peter (MD)

Adam displayed much maturity and confidence on the Fox News interview...Good for him!
Thank you for sharing your intimate story on various health challenges over the years.
As I have learned from so many cancer patients, every one of them has a story to tell. If we, as physicians, could take the time to hear, we can become more effective allies with them. There are lessons for us with each patient encounter...Your experience with doctors who made assumptions and exhibited inappropriate bedside manners should be lessons for medical students. Some seem incapable of learning, however...A couple of years ago, when I was in Hong Kong, I learned of a doctor who put his patient through great harm. He was engaged in a telephone conversation with his BMW dealer in the midst of a colonoscopy procedure. He was cauterizing the wound after having removed a polyp, was distracted, and burned a hole through the colon!
Complacency? Or just lack of care and respect...?
I agree that patients need to maintain hope, and keep looking beyond what is told by their doctors. Our knowledge in medicine is far from complete, and is always evolving. Therefore, opinions which we express, educated as they may be, are just that. And there are other perspectives!
Thank you again for sharing.