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Can you get lymphedema if you only had sentinel node removed?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Dec 9, 2023 | Replies (48)Comment receiving replies
I just love when doctors are unable to confront their own human imperfection. A male friend spent 15 minutes listening to a doctor describe the several things wrong with him in an uninterruptible monologue while staring at his X-rays. When the doctor was finished with the bad news, my friend suggested that that was probably all wrong.
The doctor condescended
to point out that he is a doctor and my friend is not and therefore his opinion was less important than the doctor's. My friend said the doctor is still wrong and he can prove it. The doctor asked how he can prove it and my friend walked over to the X-ray to point out that it wasn't his name on it. He suggested that the doctor use his superior medical education to find the X-ray with my friend's name on it before diagnosing my friend's medical challenges.
I pointed out to my friend that, had he been a female patient, the doctor would likely have been even more annoying and dismissive...and his wife seconded that appraisal.
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Same thing happened to me but with my who urologist explained in a phone appt that my imaging procedure (done under sedation by his fellow urologist) was normal. I listened patiently to him and then told him I had the results in my hand as well as the imaging pictures and it was nothing but normal! That's when he actually looked at the imaging studies and apologized. I searched out and found another urologist who resolved the problem surgically. ALWAYS check and double check...doctors are human and make errors just like the rest of us!