Seek another medical professional who can provide both knowledge and respectful compassion

Submitted Oct. 4, 2023

After my mastectomy, she lied to me about where my close margin of cancer was without letting me see a pathology report, which I confirmed later with a different doctor. She subsequently pushed radiation, and medication. She bullied me into taking chemotherapy, which gave me severe side effects. When I went to see the radiologist about the radiation, he didn't see why radiology was necessary, because there was nothing left to radiate. I was not told about the side effects of the meds, including bone loss, incontinence (wetting the bed!) and memory loss. I now have arthritis and I was in my 40's when I took the medication. Once I had my mastectomy, I was not allowed to see the doctor anymore, only the NP. After getting a second opinion about taking the medication, other doctors said that because my cancer was noninvasive I was overtreated with the medication, because although the meds cut my chance of recurrence in half, it didn't cut my chance of dying from the recurrence. I don't believe a person that uses scare tactics to treat a cancer patient should be practicing medicine in an oncology setting.

Submitted April 8, 2018