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Treatment Dogma - Aggressive is not the same as intelligent
Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Apr 18 3:55pm | Replies (20)Comment receiving replies
Unfortunately, you can never know if your decision was the ‘right one’. My first RO told me there IS NO right one - ever!
And it’s impossible NOT to second guess everything you do. As Kevin points out, these should be shared decisions between you and your doctors. Their job is to explain the condition, their ideas for how to treat that condition and finally, to explain in terms you can understand, the whys and hows.
After that, you make your best decision ( a guess really) and go with it. If you do this stepwise and logically you’ll have no regrets.
Phil
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I trust a decision far more when it's forged in the heat of real dialogue—where disagreement isn’t treated as insubordination and questions aren’t met with the intellectual equivalent of a tranquilizer dart. There’s something deeply suspect about decisions handed down from on high, cloaked in dogma, and enforced with the subtle menace of “discussion closed.” That’s not reasoned leadership; that’s authoritarian cosplay. If a decision can’t survive being questioned, it was never robust to begin with. And if I’m told to shut up and comply, don’t expect me to believe—only to obey. And that, frankly, is the surest way to breed quiet contempt.