Hi Fallaron
That's disappointing, I liked his book too. But like Caledonia, I also found the chapter on why he chose not to work with certain patients had that tang of self-justifying bullshit. Some doctors are better than others, but if there's one out there that has all the answers, I have yet to hear of them.
I just wanted to say I think you are doing a brave and difficult thing in caring for your mother. I looked after both parents when they had terminal cancer, and the final stint with my dad was kind of what brought everything to a grinding halt. It's very hard to be a carer when you are ill yourself. My brother has just been diagnosed with bilateral breast cancer, with lymph node involvement, and I am trying to grid my loins to do it again, while my body is going, as we say in the UK, 'you're having a frigging laugh aren't you?!'
But when you're in it, you're in it, and I have never regretted anything I spent in the way of health to make sure my father had the best care, and died at home as he chose. Its four years since he died. I had many years of ill health prior to his death, but nothing like the depth of it I have experienced since. Happily, over the last year, while definitely NOT CURED I am better than I was via a variety of interventions. I wish you and your family all the love and luck and acceptance and ease and grace in the world, and hope your mother's pain is soon relieved.
I feel so much better knowing there are some other docs I can check out if I need to that I hadn't heard of before.
