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Originally Posted by TimeForChange

Have lived in TV for over ten years. In that time we have used four different primary care physicians. In those ten years my wife has been mis-diagnosed twice. The first by a rather popular dermatologist. This Dr. totally missed a cancer in the corner of her eye on the skin. The Dr. blew it off as nothing. If not for USF Health Care in Tampa she could have lost an eye. After the cancer was removed in Tampa her entire eyelid had to be rebuilt with a great plastic surgeon. That was two years ago. In June of this year we thought we had found a good primary care at one of the largest medical groups in TV. We had been going to this Dr. for a year. My wife mentioned to him an issue on one of her breast. He first prescribed a topical cream and in the next two visits another cream and then an antibiotic. My wife took it upon herself to get a biopsy at USF Tampa after her Dr. at Moffitt recommended she do so. As it turns out it was breast cancer and we have due to the TV Dr's missed diagnosis,
failure to review her past medical history and failure to request an immediate biopsy now delayed a mastectomy that will .be required ASAP. My advice is do not totally trust your local PC anywhere. If you have and issue medically that will not go away then go out of TV and the area and get an expert opinion or a second opinion. I am sure there are some good Dr's in TV but still I would go to a major clinic and get an opinion. There are 1200 people a day moving to FL. There are no where near enough great Dr's in the area.

I am so sorry for what your wife has had to go through and hope things go well for her in moving forward.

What bothers me is that with her horrible experiences you have not named the doctors who have not diagnosed her correctly. To my way of thinking you are giving these same doctors the opportunity to misdiagnose others, thereby putting others in harm's way and for them to possibly have an even worse medical problem than your wife had.

Conversely, it would be great to know who the plastic surgeon is that did such a terrific job in repairing her eye.

You actually are doing others a disservice and not doing anyone a favor by protecting these doctors by not saying who they are.