Word: mcmillan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Dr. Glaspy met Christy for the first time on June 25, 1993, he found a woman in reasonably good physical shape, except for the fact that she was dying of breast cancer. The deMeurerses, in turn, saw Dr. Glaspy as warm, confident and low key, and--unlike Dr. McMillan at Scripps--open with information...
...death sentence, but her oncologist, Dr. Mahesh Gupta, warmly assured her there was hope. He recommended she consider a bone-marrow transplant and, in a breach of Health Net procedure, skipped the usual channels for making referrals and arranged a consultation with a physician he knew, Dr. Robert McMillan, an oncologist at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla. Christy's sister, living in Colorado, had urged her to see a leading bone-marrow transplanter at the University of Colorado, Roy B. Jones, but the deMeurerses decided to play by the book. They drove to La Jolla the following Monday...
...Gupta, reviewing his notes on the case, says Dr. McMillan agreed Christy was a candidate for a transplant but said she would first have to undergo several cycles of chemotherapy to demonstrate that her tumor would respond to the potent drugs used in bone-marrow therapy. In the deMeurerses' eyes, however, it was a deeply troubling encounter. Dr. McMillan declined even to describe what was involved in a bone-marrow transplant or give the family a tour of the Scripps facilities, according to Alan deMeurers and Christy's mother, Joyce Nesmith. "I believe he was told to send us away...
...McMillan, in a written reply to questions faxed to him by TIME, stated that rules governing patient-doctor confidentiality barred him from discussing specifics of the encounter. He wrote, "At no time, either prior to her visit or following her visit, did I discuss her case with Health...
...their fears, the deMeurerses by now had grown deeply distrustful. They were keenly aware that Christy was dying and that every day wasted was one more day in which the cancer cells in her body could divide and spread. Just hours after their appointment with Dr. McMillan, they flew to Denver; they saw Dr. Roy B. Jones the next...