Cancer treatment center

Chief Sapulpa said:

I'm hoping that The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will purchase their facility, tools and equipment. We're worn out from traveling to Houston many times since November however, that's our choice and bottom line is my wife is cancer free.

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Neanderthal said:

So, where's a good cancer center somewhere local for treatment? If you had to have a choice and were in northeast Oklahoma, would you pick somewhere in Tulsa or northwest Arkansas.

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steelfingers said:

Great and I just got back from losing my right lung to cancer. Guess I need to find a good Vet for the other one when it goes......wait.....that will be too late.
I'm familiar with that Cancer center. I took my best friend for life to all his treatments there. This is what I know about them. My buddy had good insurance and fortunately he had done well financially. Before they even looked at you, with great insurance, he had to give them a check for over a grand. People at the admitting desk were rude but nothing close to his cancer Doctor. My pal had been through a few treatments and was getting Chemo brain and his wife ask me to get a few questions she had answered. They just blew her off when she tried to call or went to see the Cancer Dr. with her husband. After his treatment (insurance says the Dr. has to see his patients x amount of time or he would never had came in) the Dr. came in got on his computer so he could verify his presence to bill more. This little runt would be the one you would love to make you own private hand puppet. I had a list and every time I asked a question, he ignored me. Finally, without asking how my buddy was doing he jumped up from the computer and was heading out. He got about a step past me when I grabbed his pretty white coat and jerked him back to me. He asked me "what the hell I thought I was doing (something only a person who has people that will take care of him would say) and I said in the next few minutes he's going to sit his ass down and answer each question I ask and I don't give a **** if this ends up with me in Jail and him wishing he had done what I said". At this point I was done. I jerked him to a seat and started asking the questions and he acted like a smart ass with his first answer. I made it clear we would be through with the questions soon and he will treat me and my friend with the dignity I SAY we deserve and he'll wish he did. By this time I had figured I was going to jail anyway. Got through the questions and before I let him go, I whispered in his ear that I have no problem with whatever he chooses to do when he leaves just like I have no problem in what I do now or when I leave. (that part was not smart.)
Anyway, the Tulsa Cancer treatment center is a crap hole with crap hole Dr.s who I hope are sued to the point they become male prostitutes.

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RickN said:

Man I hate doctors like that. "We know everything and you do not have the right to question us" seems to be the mindset of to many over paid punks.

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Chief Sapulpa said:

I'm hoping that The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center will purchase their facility, tools and equipment. We're worn out from traveling to Houston many times since November however, that's our choice and bottom line is my wife is cancer free.

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steelfingers said:

You sir are right but so many of us think "Don't make him mad" because we think he won't try to make us well.
I've just got too much hillbilly in me still. Doctor or tire salesman. Everyone is the same and a dirt bag is a dirt bag and should be reminded of that.

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RickN said:

Yea it was only a minor thing compared to cancer but I told off one of my docs while in OU hospital. They were giving me large doses of Lasix to bring the swelling down, had me hooked up to all kinds of monitors and then took out the catheter. They expected me to be able to lower the head of my bed so that I could roll on my side and grab the urinal before the Lasix kicked in. Did not work that way. I told them either put the cath back in or I was not taking the Lasix. Docs were pissed I dared question their orders but I stuck to my guns and they put the cath back in. Having a catheter sucks but I am to damn old to pee the bed and wait on some pretty little nurse to come clean me up.

Once they took all the monitors off so I that just had an O2 tube I started walking to the restroom. That pissed off the nurses but I only fell once.

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