Leroy:
I appreciate your reply. We have decided to leave our current Cancer Care Center for a more comprehensive group and may look into Lakewood or group at old Fitsimmons site on Colfax. If we stay where we are, my husband will surely suffer another poor decision. We are even looking at a group with a site in Tulsa OK and Zion Ill, but our Kansas insurance will only cover the Zion hospital. If I have time, we maybe should jump to the great TX icon on the gulf.
We picked a surgeon from the 8250 list, but I think his fame has hurt his ego. I have never met a more caliver person, especially after my husband suffered a leak in his Lower bowel resection and two bouts of septus. Then to add insult, we found out after radiation, that dispite the hospital's uptodate PET Scanner, the radiation equipment was 10 years old and burned the site to the point of unrepair.
As I read other message threads, apparently we are not alone in "being alone" in our care. Even with a very compassionate radiation Dr, I can see I will be totally in charge of appointment follow-ups, treatment options, etc. It will be a repeat of come in, nurses very pleasant, hook him up, go back to the hotel, cry, agonize, and start over the next day. If only I could tell you the entire tragic story. When one's entire life hung on a set of brave floor nurses, who put their jobs on the line to tell us we needed a new doctor, and stat, I don't think I would be at this site now, but a widow with much resentment.
Thanks again for your reply, and we will do some searching but quickly. The colon cancer has returned in two places and met...(sp) to the liver.