Renee said: Rowena, your doctor is wrong.
Renee, the moment he said that I knew he would not be seeing us again.
I could not believe any doctor who treats cancer would say such a thing
(surgery "100% successful"). But from your poor Dad's experience, one
deduces that they are taken in by the hype as well. Your dad's is an
experience worth storing safely, for sure, as an example. I can't
believe that fifty, sixty years ago at the least, it was "common
knowledge" that if you cut a cancer it would spread. Even back then, I
knew I would not even let a biopsy be done if a situation arose where it
was recommended. Happily, nobody has ever suggested such a thing.
The rule book rules. The Medical Talmud or the open road.
R
