No disrespect to Doctor P
We’ve been greatly impressed with him all along, even though I have grandnephews close to his apparent age. He’s given us his best evaluation of L’s situation from where he sees it, and although he was initially skeptical as to the efficacy of early HIPEC, he heard out Doctor M and was persuaded to incorporate it in the course of treatment. Particularly because he’s fairly young, I expect that should M’s approach yield the outcome we all hope for, he’ll not assume the stance of “this is how we’ve always done it”—CaesarCare’s attitude,* which would have slotted the wife on a highway to hospice care—and will countenance or even recommend early HIPEC into patients’ regimens going forward.
Doctor M, who is very confident that he and his medical faction have hit upon what amounts to a cure for L’s condition, hopes to cite her successful outcome as he lobbies for the wider adoption of this approach. Me, I hope that one of these years he name-checks her as he makes a speech in Stockholm.
cordially,
*I may have mentioned this before: CaesarCare absolutely (“vehemently” in the oncologist’s words) refused to contemplate HIPEC in their course of treatment. They were not prepared to deviate from SOP to give L a chance of surviving what they assumed by default to be a terminal condition. Fuck ’em.
Doctor M, who is very confident that he and his medical faction have hit upon what amounts to a cure for L’s condition, hopes to cite her successful outcome as he lobbies for the wider adoption of this approach. Me, I hope that one of these years he name-checks her as he makes a speech in Stockholm.
cordially,
*I may have mentioned this before: CaesarCare absolutely (“vehemently” in the oncologist’s words) refused to contemplate HIPEC in their course of treatment. They were not prepared to deviate from SOP to give L a chance of surviving what they assumed by default to be a terminal condition. Fuck ’em.