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Surgeon/scientist promoting science in medicine and exposing quackery. Editor of Science-Based Medicine. My opinions do NOT represent those of my employers.

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    1. Lars Haakon Søraas‏ @larshaakon 4 Mar 2019
      Replying to @DocBastard @MTL613 and

      Selling false hope is cruel, I agree. But bear in mind that the biggest peddlers of false hope are mainstream oncologists who routinely don't disclose prognosis to patients and tell them "don't look at the statistics". Misfinformation to cancer patients is a major problem.

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    2. Doc Bastard‏ @DocBastard 4 Mar 2019
      Replying to @larshaakon @MTL613 and

      Routinely? Really? Have you polled oncologists or their patients to see if this is true, or is this simply more of the same anti-doctor trope I see propagated here by charlatans looking for another gullible mark?

      1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
    3. Lars Haakon Søraas‏ @larshaakon 4 Mar 2019
      Replying to @DocBastard @MTL613 and

      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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    4. Doc Bastard‏ @DocBastard 4 Mar 2019
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
    5. Lars Haakon Søraas‏ @larshaakon 4 Mar 2019
      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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    6. Doc Bastard‏ @DocBastard 4 Mar 2019
      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.

      1 reply 0 retweets 6 likes
    7. Lars Haakon Søraas‏ @larshaakon 4 Mar 2019
      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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    8. Doc Bastard‏ @DocBastard 4 Mar 2019
      Replying to @larshaakon @MTL613 and

      No. I provide the information verbally.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Lars Haakon Søraas‏ @larshaakon 4 Mar 2019
      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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    10. Doc Bastard‏ @DocBastard 4 Mar 2019
      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.

      3 replies 0 retweets 17 likes
      David Gorski, MD, PhD‏Verified account @gorskon 4 Mar 2019
      Replying to @DocBastard @larshaakon and

      I just blocked him. I'm sick of him.

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