Can I just go ahead and let out a big scream for you? Because I'm sure that's what you felt like when you found out that the radiologists never saw your old films!
What exactly did the radiologists tell you? Do they HAVE your old films and just didn't look at them? Or do they not have the old films?
Let's go one step at a time.
I understand that there are these people involved:
1. your doctor (your doctor is the same through all these procedures, right?)
2. the radiologists (which were taken over by a new company)
3. your breast surgeon.
And there should be these records somewhere:
1. Your mammogram from a year ago
2. Your biopsies from a year ago
3. Your mammogram from six months ago
4. Your mammogram from the other day
Am I right in all of the above?
I think the first thing I would do (you have probably already done this) is talk to my primary doctor and see if she or he has copies of all these in my file.
If that doesn't work, I would try the breast surgeon, to see if she or he still had copies of my previous mammograms and biopsies on file.
If that doesn't work, I would talk to a supervisor at the radiologist's office to see what happened to all the old films and why they weren't compared to the new ones. I would also ask for a copy for myself of anything they have on file for me to prevent this from happening in the future.
Do you know exactly where in your breast(s) these suspicious calcifications are? And are they in the same place(s) as before?
I would certainly think that it's possible that they're the same, since you have a history of this and since they were there six months ago. But the most important thing is that someone needs to be able to compare the old with the new. Unfortunately, you are the one who may need to make this happen. Can you start with your doctors, and let us know what they say?
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Anon,
Can I just go ahead and let out a big scream for you? Because I'm sure that's what you felt like when you found out that the radiologists never saw your old films!
What exactly did the radiologists tell you? Do they HAVE your old films and just didn't look at them? Or do they not have the old films?
Let's go one step at a time.
I understand that there are these people involved:
1. your doctor (your doctor is the same through all these procedures, right?)
2. the radiologists (which were taken over by a new company)
3. your breast surgeon.
And there should be these records somewhere:
1. Your mammogram from a year ago
2. Your biopsies from a year ago
3. Your mammogram from six months ago
4. Your mammogram from the other day
Am I right in all of the above?
I think the first thing I would do (you have probably already done this) is talk to my primary doctor and see if she or he has copies of all these in my file.
If that doesn't work, I would try the breast surgeon, to see if she or he still had copies of my previous mammograms and biopsies on file.
If that doesn't work, I would talk to a supervisor at the radiologist's office to see what happened to all the old films and why they weren't compared to the new ones. I would also ask for a copy for myself of anything they have on file for me to prevent this from happening in the future.
Do you know exactly where in your breast(s) these suspicious calcifications are? And are they in the same place(s) as before?
I would certainly think that it's possible that they're the same, since you have a history of this and since they were there six months ago. But the most important thing is that someone needs to be able to compare the old with the new. Unfortunately, you are the one who may need to make this happen. Can you start with your doctors, and let us know what they say?
November 23, 2009 - 9:09amThis Comment
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