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Q: liver cancer misdiagnosis

asked by: starley on October 27th, 2009

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My dad spent 3 months going to doctors to find out what was wrong with him. Diabetes out of control, abnormal weight and blood loss,extreme fatigue. His pain got so bad we took him to Mayo clinc e.r. They did a ct scan, and within 20 minutes he knew he had inoperable cancer.He lived less than 2 weeks after diagnosis. His primary doctor sent him for bone marrow test with an oncologist, and upper,lower g.i. with stomach specialist. He had 5 blood transfusions in less than a month. He had a large growth on his lower abdomen; the dr said probably a hernia, would address later. I know he had a terminal illness, but he could have spent his last few months living instead of being mislead by a bunch of "reputable" doctors. Do i seem to have a legitimate reason for being upset?

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gmoorephx

replied on October 27th, 2009

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Seems like you do. If the doctors kept throwing him around like that then yes. I know, or at least partially know, what it's like to be thrown around, and if i knew someone close to me where dying i would spend as much time with them as possible.
Just know that he doesn't have to deal with it anymore. It's what we all though when a close family friend who, in a way, was like family, died painfully of lung cancer. For the last few months of his life he suffered no matter what they gave him, and couldn't swallow for the last 3 months of his life and hed to be fed by a tube. It was horrible, but thank some power that they don't have to suffer anymore.

I truly am sorry for your loss, but i think you should say something or talk to someone about what happened. If the doctor, or your dad knew that they had something wrong and said something to the doctor then they should have done something or looked into it.

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