“How Do I Say This Nicely? Your Oncologist Wasn't Following Guidelines”

Cancer Network

"....The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) recommendations for follow-up testing for most diagnoses are easy to support. So when you start seeing a patient for the first time who has been treated elsewhere and the previous oncologist has not followed standard protocol, how do you present this new way of doing things without alienating the patient or sounding critical of the previous doctor?..."