Re: Another Pain Update

[Guest guest]

Could a lawyer help? Going to the news? Moving?

My pain has been flaring up/too/ from trying to find a job, since

disability was denied. Just applying has taken a toll.

Ellen in TN

> wrote:

> I'm scheduled to see my neurosurgeon on Tuesday about begging him to manage

> a pump for me.

>

> My PCP has been going behind my back and telling my current doctors not to

> treat my pain because he is doing it, but lowering my dose. He told me and

> my wife he wasn't prescribing at all and instructed us to try to go. To

> make matters worse, my Radiation Oncologist told my PCP that he doesn't

> think my pain is caused by my cancer. He also told my doctor the size of my

> tumor (2x2x3 cm) and the idiot thinks that it is no big deal because it

> isn't that big. Anywhere else in the body, no big deal; in the brainstem,

> HUGE DEAL. If it was really no big deal, why are they irradiating my brain

> and dosing me with poison (aka chemotherapy)?

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

I absolutely, completely. 100% agree with Ellen. Your PCP is committing

SERIOUS MALPRACTICE AND COULD GO TO PRISON for what he is doing you. And

god only knows how he has treated other patients??

I believe that, at this point, in order to save your life, your BEST, and

possibly only, option is to sue the pants off your @$$hole PCP.

Find a malpractice attorney. Most of them offer free consultations and do

not charge you unless and until they win your case for you. A quick

Internet search, or by going to the American Bar Association's website,

will help you find some.

I suggest that you also do the following:

A) Ad Ellen said, GO TO THE NEWS. And I mean television, radio,

newspaper--even Internet news sites. MAKE NOISE, and SOMEONE will respond.

Find out what professional associations your PCP is a member of, and

file a complaint with their Ethics Committees. I can almost guarantee that

he is a member of the American Medical Association (AMA). Most licensed

doctors belong to at least 2 or 3, but many also belong to more than that.

If he is found in violation of the associations' ethics rules--whicj I am

sure ALL of us on this list will agree that he will--then he will be kicked

out of those organizations, AND this will be PUBLIC information. Plus, any

doctor who has ever been kicked out of a professional

association--especially the AMA, above all others--is unlikely ever to get

a job again, and could even be fired from his current practice.

C) As someone(s) else on this list suggested, write to your senators and

representatives. You can find out who they are at www.house.gov and

www.senate.gov.

Do all of these, with the help and support of your family and friends to do

anything you can't do yourself due to the pain. SOMEONE will take your

case, SOMEONE will listen, SOMEONE will help you so that you can survive

and live through this.

Steve, I care about you and I am thinking about and praying for you during

this trying time for you. GOOD LUCK, and please do take some action. It

will help save your life.

With love,

e.h.

>Ellen wrote:

> Could a lawyer help? Going to the news? Moving?

>

> My pain has been flaring up/too/ from trying to find a job, since

> disability was denied. Just applying has taken a toll.

[Guest guest]

--,

I am a retired radiation therapist and radiation therapy causes scarring and

inflammation and so does cancer. The cancer itself can cause pressure which may

happen at different times.

I would contact the American Cancer Society and start keeping a pain dairy

(American Pain Foundation, Target you Pain Notebook) and every time you go to

the Doctor or radiation therapist ask that it be included in your medical

records. Somehow, having a piece of documentation will bring them around.

Please call the Cancer Centers of America , , they have really good

contacts and their facility is in Philadelphia. Let us know what they tell

you.http://www.cancercenter.com/eastern-hospital.cfm

Bennie