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...Patient's Gratitude I read your article on breast cancer with great interest [Oct. 15]. Kenyan Mary Onyango's comment that if you can't travel overseas for treatment, "you just sit and wait for your death," prodded me to respond. A year after learning I had breast cancer, I am once again fit and healthy. Contrary to being urged to go abroad for treatment, I had surgery, chemotherapy and radiation in Nairobi, and I have nothing but praise and gratitude for every person involved in my treatment. Hettie Tooley, Eldoret, Kenya...
...colleagues know," he says - mostly men, as he's a communications technician for the Royal Air Force in Britain. "They were as dumbfounded as I was." Even at his local breast clinic, when Place would arrive, he says, some staff assumed he was accompanying a female patient...
...feeling the buzz. I'd never heard of Johnny, but my patients' had - and people think that sports stars automatically know who the best doctors are. (They are, of course, quite wrong.) It's a tremendous practice-builder to have a few celebs on your roster. It can also be, if you don't watch out, a tremendous ego-inflator. Not that a surgeon's legendary ego needs growth - it's usually huge enough already. Sometimes that's a good thing: Much as Johnny's star confidence elevated the mood of the office, the surgeon's big ego can often...
...pitch was surprising and off-putting - but salesman or not, this guy was my patient and he was in a lot of pain. I knew about superslime; there are quite a few drugs like it - injectable hyaluronic acids, basically artificial mucus, that seem to lessen joint pain in some arthritis patients. Their effectiveness in advanced arthritis isn't great, but they have little in the way of downsides - and what better psychic enhancer could I ask for than having my patient sell me the product? (Surely, it would encourage recovery more than his star power and my doctor...
...cycles; he can even jog a little without knee pain. Was it the superslime? Probably not. Most likely it was the two knee replacements we did over the next six months. I see him now every year or so for a check-up. He's still a great patient and he's sent me other good ones. He called on us for a year after the surgeries selling superslime, but now only sells antihypertensives to the medical guys down the hall...