Own experience. And from speaking with many cancer patients. If you are really a doctor, you can just ask some of your patients with cancer what information they have been given about prognosis (both with and without treatment), side effects, risks, etc.
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Replying to @larshaakon @MTL613 and
I am a doctor, and I treat cancer patients. I spoke with one with metastatic cancer just a few days ago about how chemo is poison, but that it may help her. Not *will*, but may. If an oncologist ever promises anything, you need to find a new one.
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Replying to @DocBastard @MTL613 and
So let me ask you this then: do you always provide cancer patients with written information about the following before they have to decide on the treatment: *prognosis with/without the treatment *side effects/quality of life with and without the treatment?
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Replying to @larshaakon @MTL613 and
As I am a surgeon, I do not give chemo, so no I do not. I sit with my patients and have a very frank, open, and fully honest discussion about what chemo is, what it can do, and what it can't do. Then I send them to an oncologist.
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Replying to @DocBastard @MTL613 and
Let's rather talk about your surgery patients then. Do you always provide written information to your patients about the same things?
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Replying to @larshaakon @MTL613 and
No. I provide the information verbally.
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Replying to @DocBastard @MTL613 and
Wow. So patients get no written information they can bring home, read and study, discuss with family/friends before deciding? And, conveniently, no one will ever be able to check if you provide accurate and suitable information? I guess informed consent is not your specialty.
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Replying to @larshaakon @MTL613 and
Your tactic has now turned to a personal attack on my ethics, and that is absolutely disgusting and reprehensible. You've made it obvious that you have no interest in a real discussion.
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Replying to @gorskon @DocBastard and
You do not «give» informed consent. You «obtain» it. And if it is only verbal, it is rarely «informed». I know it is common practice among surgeons (and many other doctors). But it is not a good way to practice medicine.
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Doc Bastard is right about you, and I'm done with you.
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