Thanks to Google I did not have
to ponder long about country mouse vs city mouse medicine. "… willing to
travel to receive treatment" Special Report: Behind a cancer-treatment firm's rosy survival claims.
Reading through the lung cancer
blogs in my sidebar it is kind of impossible to ignore the pilgrimages to Alice
Shaw, MD at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Of course money neutralizes country
mouse medicine by creating the opportunity to travel to city mouse medicine. Expanding
my question to would my chances of outliving lung cancer be better if I had a
pile of money or the support of income from a working spouse?
As for that working spouse …
the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance found that “A woman is six times more likely
to be separated or divorced soon after a diagnosis of cancer or multiple
sclerosis”
Divorce and/or separation
dramatically impacts health insurance and resulting health care options beyond
the loss of emotional and physical support .
Federal gridlock has ass
backwards neutralized the advantage to wealth in cancer care ... “Experts at
leading cancer organizations say expected cuts from the sequester will mean
dramatically less money for critical cancer research—and patients not having
access to lifesaving treatments.” Sequester Cuts Put More Cancer Patients at Risk of Dying, Researchers Say
Obama health law anniversary finds 2 Americas, “active sick and worried.’
For a quarter century I've thumbed my nose at the gods fighting to maximize my wife's quality of life from her progressing symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.
Am I now reaching too far to hope to cheat my own death?
With Easter Sunday looming,
cheating death is hard to ignore.
Patrick Leer
Health Activist:
Caregivingly Yours, MS Caregiver @ http://caregivinglyyours.blogspot.com/
My Lung Cancer Odyssey @ http://lung-cancer-survivor.blogspot.com/
health
lung cancer
harrisburg
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