Would just like some opinions and help about care you receive with out insurance with breast cancer?
The System IS SCREWED UP. I’m an MD, a cancer specialist retired now after 20 years of patient care. One reason I retired fairly young is that the system is not right. I treated all patients the same regardless of ability to pay. That is the way it should be. But I’m a dinosaur – – an extinct species. I figured about half the work I did was for people who could not pay, but that was OK. I was lucky to be a doctor and not have cancer. The system increasingly forced assembly line medicine – as if patients were parts on a conveyor belt. Every person is special. Every person deserves the same care as anyone with “lots of money.” BUT – CT scans and blood work do not cure or effectively treat cancer. What kind of cancer are you fighting? There are hundreds of different cancers. Some can be treated effectively, and some can not. Follow-up scans and blood tests only help predict the future. Your oncologist may be right if you have a type of cancer that cannot be treated effectively if it is fo
