NOT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!

The wife of actor and film director Michael Douglas went public with her anger and disappointment with the medical profession. Ms Zeta-Jones cannot understand why her husband was recently diagnosed with STAGE 4 throat cancer when he had been treated by many physicians who had seen nothing. To go from NOTHING to STAGE 4 is mind boggling and the average person cannot comprehend how this is possible.

Do you remember my friend Elaine who was treated for SEVEN MONTHS by a gasteroenterologist for a 'gall bladder condition' when in reality she had STAGE 4 metastatic (spreading) ovarian cancer? Or my patient whose step daughter called me on a Sunday morning stating that her step father had a significant pain in his throat and could not swollow but his physician had SEEN NOTHING during his appointment on Thursday. I diagnosed throat cancer and sent him to specialists.

What is going on here and DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW?

I believe (which means that I may or may not be correct) that doctors no longer see their profession as 'THEIR CALLING IN LIFE" but rather a 9-5 job where they put in their time and they get paid.

Sorry, but you know how I feel about the awesome responsibility of taking care of another human being: The MOST SACRED of all human relationships. Where a physician or a dentist GIVES OF THEMSELVES for the benefit of their patient.

I blame the medical profession but I also blame the society that we have become in which we don't want to pay doctors because we want to use the money to buy nice homes and cars or pay outrageous college tuitions.

I told you this would happen and it has...AGAIN!