Word: scrippses
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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...
In May, Christy underwent a bone scan, which showed her cancer had spread; her disease was now classified as Stage IV metastatic breast cancer. Given the standard therapies available, it was a death sentence, but her oncologist, Dr. Mahesh Gupta, warmly assured her there was hope. He recommended she consider...
Dr. 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...
A week later, Christy, accompanied by her mother, returned to Dr. Gupta, whom they still viewed as a beacon of warmth. "There's lots of hope, lots of things to do," Nesmith recalls his saying. Christy, dissatisfied with her reception at Scripps and reluctant to undergo months of treatment away...
Dr. Gupta confirms he saw Christy that day but says he does not recall this aspect of their encounter. He did not in fact have the authority to make such referrals, he says; these can only be made by a patient's primary-care physician. Asked why, then, he felt...