The Seattle Cancer Care Alliance does a lot of things right. One of them is recognizing the fallibility of their own doctors. This assumption based on a practice they implement every week. They have meetings with other physicians to discuss each patient and how to implement treatment. Sometimes, they even have meetings with specialist doctors from across the country.
I was just reminded of this practice yesterday when a nurse from the SCCA said they were planning to discuss my latest liver problem with the group of doctors. Today, I heard the result of that discussion which wasn't all that spectacular. As I expected, I'll be going back on Sirolimus, a drug that reduces the effectiveness of my immune system. It's an immune suppressant, taken so that my new immune system won't fight rest of me as a foreign entity.
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