Since a diagnosis of colon and rectal cancer in 1993, I have had a number of serious complications and a recurrence. Some, if not most of what occurred could have been avoided. My experience points to some gaps in my health care that providers and patients might want to consider.
I was given the option to choose a cancer treatment and made the wrong choice. As a busy university administrator, I …
A story of gaps in cancer care
Cardiologists with national reputations were available at a hospital just an hour away. I had connections there and could get what I was sure would be better care for my mother than she would receive in the small hospital where she had been taken following a heart attack in her office. But what if she died on the way? At 67, she had a full life and enjoyed her work …
Scared to death and learning to trust
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