Posted on 04/20/2016 5:03:01 PM PDT by Kaslin
Odd that you thought of that immediately.
If he is a smoker it’s all his fault,eh?
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Wikipedia says no.
Try VA Palo Alto — I’m blessed to live where I do. The care there is incredibly good.
I have heard of people getting LC who never smoked. There has to be some other reason for it.
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Non-smokers have about a 3% chance of getting it. Smokers have about a 6% chance.
The last time I was in Dallas I was placed in a closet. No, I’m not kidding.
Stossel is spot on with what it’s like to be in most hospitals. FYI, US News ranks are based on the measurable outcomes of procedures, not customer service.
The hospital I use does customer surveys, and I think it’s starting to work. A procedure I had a few weeks ago was as good an experience as it could be.
My mother was a smoker for 40 years, quit in 1984, diagnosed with lung cancer in 2010, died a painful death from complications in 2012. Not blamimg Stossel. It’s personal for me. I don’t wish cancer on my worst enemy.
I live in one of those hated major cities with teaching hospitals that have saved my life twice. I don’t bitch about details. Some highly skilled 38 year old doc stents up a 90% blocked left descending artery and it can’t even be detected on an echo cardiogram a year later. My first thought is to give a crap about being emailed? Have some freaking gratitude.
Try a V.A. hospital sometime.
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I think some are better than others. Like regular hospitals, the ones associated with top university programs tend to be better. I don’t know if any are associated with religious institutions, though. Some of those are excellent hospitals, too.
My experience with VA healthcare is limited to Palo Alto - everything has been consistently excellent for the past five+ years. As I say, I’m blessed to live here.
“Great Article. Stossel needs to go to Mayo Clinic in Rochester,Mn for amazing patient care. Astounding system. One of the best in the world.”
Or Stanford University Hospital in Palo Alco, CA. My wife had open-heart surgery there (at 72) to replace a calcified Aortic Valve. It is a six-hour operation that involves stopping the heart to make the needed repair. I had no idea that any hospital anywhere ran at the level of Stanford (which is #1 in California). Health care in California is generally way above average, but the bar would have to be set extemely high at any other hospital to equal the care she received there!
Glad they caught it early.
God speed...
Nearly missed this one. Best to you and I hope for a speedy recovery.
“Try VA Palo Alto — I’m blessed to live where I do. The care there is incredibly good.”
That’s because it’s a stones throw from Sanford Hospital. My father was treated for bone cancer at the PAVA, and all his doctors were from Stanford. That said, ti was 40 years ago and he did not survive, but the doctors were heroic, and they had some who were also from UCSF. If all VA hospitals were like the one in PA, we would not be having the discussion about them today.
Exactly - I’m dealing with a bit of lung cancer myself right now. I had a lobectomy in February and am currently getting radiation at Stanford for the other side. The overlap between Stanford and VA Palo Alto is incredible.
The largest cohort of lung cancer is Chinese women who have been cooking all their lives with smoky fires an using heated oils.
“I’m dealing with a bit of lung cancer myself right now.”
I’ll keep a good thought for you!
Thanks, I appreciate that. I never did put up a prayer request thread.
Whoops. My mistake. I am glad you are cancer free.
About 10% of lung cancer victims never smoked.
Another 10% of lung cancer victims quit smoking before age 40, or, they quit after age 40, but were smoke free for at least 20 years.
Statistically, the two groups of ex-smokers I mentioned above have roughly the same risk for lung cancer as people who never smoked at all.
But, today, we don’t really have enough knowledge to tell if smoking caused their cancer, or if something else caused it.
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