video: doctor who restricted his wife's appointment to one problem only - video

Blogger's Note/Opinion: while this media report is from Canada (Manitoba) this is not a country-specific issue, it is, however, not patient-centered nor patient-friendly care, watch media for upcoming 'apologies'

Canada News Videos

 'Assembly line medicine' (video)

1. Thu, 3 May, 2012 - CBC.ca 2:01 | 63,732 views

   Medical experts weigh in on a Manitoba man's complaint against a doctor who restricted his wife's appointment to one problem only.

7 steps to managing angry (hostile) patients - Staff members are central to this proven technique - ModernMedicine

7 steps to managing angry patients - Staff members are central to this proven technique - ModernMedicine

Dr Maurie Markman: Clinical Oncology News - A Provocative Intersection: Rare cancers, “approved” anti-neoplastics and preclinical models

Clinical Oncology News - A Provocative Intersection: Rare cancers, “approved” anti-neoplastics and preclinical models

"Preclinical results describing a novel approach to the treatment of an uncommon malignant condition raise a provocative question: How, in the current increasingly rigid “guideline-based” era of cancer management, can such observations ever leave the realm of the laboratory to be examined in the clinic? And can a rational approach to this highly relevant dilemma be devised?
Primary mucinous tumors comprise a very small proportion (<5%) of morphologic subtypes found in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer......."

"....One might even argue that the outcome of such individual non-investigative experiences be posted in an easily identified, well-organized, condition-specific online database (with absolutely no accompanying patient-specific identifiers), so the oncology community would be aware of any clinically beneficial effects observed if colleagues had previously attempted to employ this novel approach in an individual patient with a metastatic mucinous ovarian cancer.....