Why Is This News? Why Is It New?
Friday, October 5, 2018
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, our local comprehensive cancer center, deserves the greatest abide by as well as appreciation for its many contributions to the community, the region, as well as the world. But when this press release was issued on Feb 26, I had to wonder why it was news, as well as why it was new. Excerpt:
New patients alongside cancer tin at nowadays see a specialist equally shortly equally the next hateful solar daytime at Dana-Farber/Brigham as well as Women’s Cancer Center inwards Boston.
“A cancer diagnosis creates tremendous anxiety as well as doubt for both patients as well as their families,” said Dr. Craig Bunnell, Chief Medical Officer at Dana-Farber. “Not everyone wants or needs to come upwards equally apace equally the adjacent day, but for people who do, such quick access to the expertise, tending as well as back upwards they demand is tremendously reassuring.”
“Providing adjacent hateful solar daytime access right away next a cancer diagnosis is percentage of our commitment to patient-centered care,” said Michael J. Zinner, chairman of the Department of Surgery at Brigham as well as Women’s Hospital (BWH).
Well, sure. We all sympathize that. The contrary is awful, equally I related inwards this 2012 story close my belatedly friend Sonya from St. Thomas, VI, later her see to DFCI, which I did non rank at the time:
In the wintertime of 2010, when I was nonetheless CEO of Beth State of Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Sonya called me to tell she was inwards Boston for some tests. Biopsy results received on a Fri afternoon indicated 2 forms of cancer. She was inwards a turmoil. The people at i of Boston’s most distinguished cancer centers had given her this verdict as well as and then told her they would laid her upwards to run across alongside a medical oncologist inwards 10 days.
Ten days? You give a adult woman exam results showing 2 forms of serious cancer; she is over a one one thousand miles from home, staying lone inwards a hotel; as well as the best you lot tin create is perish her an engagement 10 days hence? It is difficult to imagine a to a greater extent than barbarous act. We had dinner the adjacent night, as well as she told me the story. I said, “We volition create improve for you.” I took her medical records as well as sent an e-mail at 10 pm that nighttime to several doctors at BIDMC, bespeak them to intend close how nosotros could help.
I called Sonya the adjacent day, Sunday, at close 1pm, maxim that someone was probable to travel inwards touch. She replied, “Dr. Awtrey [our gynecological oncologist] already called me. He spent 2 hours on the telephone alongside me this morn telling me what to await as well as possibilities for handling as well as promising to coordinate my tending alongside the other departments. His secretarial assistant volition alternative upwards my medical records from your travel tomorrow morning.”
The adjacent morning, Chris Awtrey’s secretarial assistant came past times the office, as well as I asked her to limited my appreciation to him for reaching out to Sonya on a Sunday. She looked at me alongside keen seriousness as well as said, “Oh, at that topographic point is no argue to give cheers him. Dr. Awtrey believes that the most of import percentage of his chore -- earlier performing whatever handling -- is to pass equally much fourth dimension equally necessary alongside a adult woman to aid her travel less anxious close her disease. That is the means he is. I can’t intend of a to a greater extent than admirable person. It is such a privilege to piece of employment alongside him.”
Now, I know inwards my pump that DFCI doctors are also variety as well as caring. Why it took until this calendar month to revise their procedures to give the variety of tending that nosotros would desire for whatever fellow member of our solid unit of measurement is a puzzle to me. I promise as well as trust that their past times touchstone of tending was an anomaly amidst cancer centers, that their novel approach is a long-standing norm only about the country.
New patients alongside cancer tin at nowadays see a specialist equally shortly equally the next hateful solar daytime at Dana-Farber/Brigham as well as Women’s Cancer Center inwards Boston.
“A cancer diagnosis creates tremendous anxiety as well as doubt for both patients as well as their families,” said Dr. Craig Bunnell, Chief Medical Officer at Dana-Farber. “Not everyone wants or needs to come upwards equally apace equally the adjacent day, but for people who do, such quick access to the expertise, tending as well as back upwards they demand is tremendously reassuring.”
“Providing adjacent hateful solar daytime access right away next a cancer diagnosis is percentage of our commitment to patient-centered care,” said Michael J. Zinner, chairman of the Department of Surgery at Brigham as well as Women’s Hospital (BWH).
Well, sure. We all sympathize that. The contrary is awful, equally I related inwards this 2012 story close my belatedly friend Sonya from St. Thomas, VI, later her see to DFCI, which I did non rank at the time:
In the wintertime of 2010, when I was nonetheless CEO of Beth State of Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Sonya called me to tell she was inwards Boston for some tests. Biopsy results received on a Fri afternoon indicated 2 forms of cancer. She was inwards a turmoil. The people at i of Boston’s most distinguished cancer centers had given her this verdict as well as and then told her they would laid her upwards to run across alongside a medical oncologist inwards 10 days.
Ten days? You give a adult woman exam results showing 2 forms of serious cancer; she is over a one one thousand miles from home, staying lone inwards a hotel; as well as the best you lot tin create is perish her an engagement 10 days hence? It is difficult to imagine a to a greater extent than barbarous act. We had dinner the adjacent night, as well as she told me the story. I said, “We volition create improve for you.” I took her medical records as well as sent an e-mail at 10 pm that nighttime to several doctors at BIDMC, bespeak them to intend close how nosotros could help.
I called Sonya the adjacent day, Sunday, at close 1pm, maxim that someone was probable to travel inwards touch. She replied, “Dr. Awtrey [our gynecological oncologist] already called me. He spent 2 hours on the telephone alongside me this morn telling me what to await as well as possibilities for handling as well as promising to coordinate my tending alongside the other departments. His secretarial assistant volition alternative upwards my medical records from your travel tomorrow morning.”
The adjacent morning, Chris Awtrey’s secretarial assistant came past times the office, as well as I asked her to limited my appreciation to him for reaching out to Sonya on a Sunday. She looked at me alongside keen seriousness as well as said, “Oh, at that topographic point is no argue to give cheers him. Dr. Awtrey believes that the most of import percentage of his chore -- earlier performing whatever handling -- is to pass equally much fourth dimension equally necessary alongside a adult woman to aid her travel less anxious close her disease. That is the means he is. I can’t intend of a to a greater extent than admirable person. It is such a privilege to piece of employment alongside him.”
Now, I know inwards my pump that DFCI doctors are also variety as well as caring. Why it took until this calendar month to revise their procedures to give the variety of tending that nosotros would desire for whatever fellow member of our solid unit of measurement is a puzzle to me. I promise as well as trust that their past times touchstone of tending was an anomaly amidst cancer centers, that their novel approach is a long-standing norm only about the country.