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Originally Posted by PennBF
It is interesting that in some cases time and travel are the consideration for cancer or other serious conditions. I firmly believe practices and policies are critical to the best treatment. In most major Clinic's and teaching hospitals (e.g. Lahey Clinic in Arlington, Mass, MD Anderson in Texas, Mayo Clinic in Rochester,Minn/Jacksonville, Fl., John Hopkins in Baltimore,Sloan, NY City etc) if in the case of the illness there is a question the Dept Doctor's in that speciality will sit at the end of the week and consult as to what is the best treatment, etc. If a person is facing a serious condition why not go to the known best?  |
I agree. MD Anderson is what saved my Michigan friends' daughter whose local cancer treatment doctors told her she couldn't be cured. That was 20 years ago, and she's still going strong.
Her parents' research online on her rare form of cancer is what brought them to MD Anderson. A year of disruption to their lives was worth it to them.