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When a person learns that he or she has cancer they are looking for the medical people to show compassion in delivering this devastating news or the patient might have an emotional breakdown.
A senior citizen lady at Battery Park in New Castle, DE shared a horrific story of her first learning she had breast cancer. She said she had a mammogram that revealed the beginning of breast cancer. The results touched her very very emotionally. This senior citizen was advised to speak with the head doctor for this subdivision of a major hospital complex.
Her voice became filled with disdain as she started to recount what happened. The gray in her hair and the wrinkles in her pale colored face allowed her Irish heritage to show through. She had a very determined look in her eyes as she continued.
This senior citizen lady says that the head doctor told her that her cancer revelation was not as bad as someone losing a child suggesting that she should stop being emotional. This comment was the straw that broke the camel’s back. The senior citizen lady says she immediately left this hospital and took her business to the University of Pennsylvania Hospital where she found excellent and compassionate treatment.
This lady’s story suggested that the cancer advertisement that I see on the television with the fellow claiming that the doctor wanted to know why he was smiling with his cancer revelation was underpinned by a legitimate concern and not merely one man’s experience. The cancer survivor highlights non-compassion by pointing outs the arrogance of these doctors. It was really distressful to hear this senior citizen lady railing her great disdain against the institution in which the unfeeling doctor worked when I knew it to be a great hospital with many fine doctors and nurses.
