Cancer doctors have worked extremely hard to get where they are in the medical world. They have fought their way through grueling years at medical school. They have specialized in a field that has a high mortality rate, and that can be very depressing. However that is no excuse to be pessimistic, because the attitude of your oncologist affects your care, your mood and ultimately your prognosis.
The attitude of the medical profession is important even as early as the day that you are diagnosed with cancer. Whether or not, a patient survives cancer has something to do with their own mindset and their belief that it is not a death sentence, but a disease that can be cured. However your doctors attitude can shape how you deal with finding a cure.
If the doctor is negative about the prognosis then the patient does not believe that their life is worth fighting for, conversely if the doctor is too optimistic then the patient is not motivated to dig deep within themselves to search for the reserves that they will need to combat cancer.
As a cancer patient you have to be part of your own team, and all the members of that team have to be team players, there is no room for egoists within that team. While it is a team not all the members should be equal it is your life and you should be the manager of your team. However as in life to be an effective manager you have to be in possession of the facts. Without those facts that you must root out and decide what is important to your well being.
It is not a time to face life with your head in the sand because that will guarantee that you will shortly be looking death in the face. Looking death in the face is itself frightening without the burden of a pessimistic oncologist. It takes a great deal of effort, time and guts to be a positive oncologist because more or less they are losing more patients than they save.
However a pessimistic oncologist is in a no lose situation and they are using your treatment as the yardstick. For instance if they are right and you die, their prognosis was correct, they have not raised your hopes. However if you beat cancer, then they have gone from zero to hero because they have cured you. Which means in effect that whatever they do to treat you they cannot lose?
Conversely the positive oncologist has to do much more work; he has to be sensitive to your needs, your lifestyle and what you want from the treatment. He has to search out the best treatment to meet your needs. That does not mean that you will necessarily survive your cancer, but one thing for sure is the fact that if you think that you are going to die then you are more likely to bring about that self fulfilling prognosis and a good doctor will recognize that fact. Therefore seek out and find an oncologist that believes that you can be treated and cured.
The attitude of the medical profession is important even as early as the day that you are diagnosed with cancer. Whether or not, a patient survives cancer has something to do with their own mindset and their belief that it is not a death sentence, but a disease that can be cured. However your doctors attitude can shape how you deal with finding a cure.
If the doctor is negative about the prognosis then the patient does not believe that their life is worth fighting for, conversely if the doctor is too optimistic then the patient is not motivated to dig deep within themselves to search for the reserves that they will need to combat cancer.
As a cancer patient you have to be part of your own team, and all the members of that team have to be team players, there is no room for egoists within that team. While it is a team not all the members should be equal it is your life and you should be the manager of your team. However as in life to be an effective manager you have to be in possession of the facts. Without those facts that you must root out and decide what is important to your well being.
It is not a time to face life with your head in the sand because that will guarantee that you will shortly be looking death in the face. Looking death in the face is itself frightening without the burden of a pessimistic oncologist. It takes a great deal of effort, time and guts to be a positive oncologist because more or less they are losing more patients than they save.
However a pessimistic oncologist is in a no lose situation and they are using your treatment as the yardstick. For instance if they are right and you die, their prognosis was correct, they have not raised your hopes. However if you beat cancer, then they have gone from zero to hero because they have cured you. Which means in effect that whatever they do to treat you they cannot lose?
Conversely the positive oncologist has to do much more work; he has to be sensitive to your needs, your lifestyle and what you want from the treatment. He has to search out the best treatment to meet your needs. That does not mean that you will necessarily survive your cancer, but one thing for sure is the fact that if you think that you are going to die then you are more likely to bring about that self fulfilling prognosis and a good doctor will recognize that fact. Therefore seek out and find an oncologist that believes that you can be treated and cured.
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