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  • Eric Drew posted an update in the group The WeHeal Welcome Community

    This guy was diagnosed with lung cancer, but the write up is about how bad this country is at servicing patients! Great read! Regardless of having great doctors and technology, with a failing system of delivering medical care mistakes are made and many fall through the holes! I was one of them in my opinion! Medical Care Excellent but the Customer Service Stinks, John Stossel

    • Eric Drew replied

      John I relate to those words so much its almost like I wrote them. I definitely feel that upon my diagnosis and for a year after, my providers were not honest with me and gave me treatments that they knew would cause me great harm but had not chance of curing my leukemia. Very unethical, and this was at one of the largest most well renowned medical centers in the US! The lesson here, unfortunately, is that when it comes to your life and your health, be 100% accountable and educate yourself so that you can make your own well informed treatment decisions. This is the whole concept behind WeHeal! Thank you John for your participation and support!

      • Gracie007 replied

        Eric do you think that maybe the goal was to prolong your life long enough until there was a trial that would work?

        • Eric Drew replied

          Thank you Gracie! I don’t think they gave it that much thought to be honest. They are under orders to offer specific treatments and not discuss alternatives, so they were always in crisis mode and didn’t have time to advocate for patients. If that was their goal they did not vocalize this to me. I guess the biggest issue I have was the lack of transparency in what the goals and objectives were of the trial. I only found out a year later when I was being treated somewhere else that the treatments I had previously had no chance of curing me, as nobody with my disease has ever been cured with radiation and chemo alone. The only known cure to this day is to replace the blood and bone marrow with an ablative transplant. Hopefully that will change with the development of immune therapies. Hopefully soon no invasive chemo or radiation will be needed!