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trusting doctors material - trusting doctors is a topic touched on in Hugh Cook's medical memoir CANCER PATIENT Want to read the "Cancer Patient" medical memoir? Click here to start reading chapter one. Want an overview of the book? Click here for chapter-by-chapter details. |
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I concluded, therefore, that my concept was wrong. After all, I was just the patient. The doctor, by contrast, was a doctor. His role was to instruct. Mine was to receive instruction. Initially, then, I was acting from a position of pretty much complete faith in the medical profession in general and in the eye doctoring subset of that profession in particular. I started from a position of complete trust but my trust got trashed, and Doctor Quack was the person who did the trashing. |
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The topic trusting doctors is a topic which this web page deals with. But the material on this site is not limited to trusting doctors; rather, a range of things, trusting doctors included, are touched upon in Hugh Cook's medical memoir "Cancer Patient", the complete text of which is here on this web site to read for free online, and which may also be purchased as a printed book from amazon.com. In the course of writing his medical memoir "Cancer Patient" Hugh Cook has touched on the topic of trusting doctors, amongst other things. You can read here about trusting doctors for free. This website does not focus exclusively on trusting doctors but trusting doctors is one of the topics touched on in these web pages. The writer has published some material about trusting doctors online because some people who are inquiring about trusting doctors want to search for material relating to trusting doctors; for such people, people who want to find trusting doctors material, it may be helpful to be directed to a passage dealing with trusting doctors. Why? Because even if the stuff here about trusting doctors does not provide the specific data which the search had hoped to find, the material may perhaps be helpful. One lives in hope. |
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Disclaimer This personal memoir of the writer's encounter with cancer (non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the large B-cell type) attempts to cleave to the truth. However, the text may contain information that is wrong, outdated, incomplete or otherwise misleading. This memoir has been written in a time of illness by a cancer patient who, though he feels sharp enough, must admit to sometimes misinterpreting things, forgetting things, or, on occasion, quite simply not hearing things. This memoir is designed to communicate the writer's personal experience and is not intended as a source of medical information. Got a medical question? Ask your doctor. |
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