Murder by diagnosis... (2)
The two doctors treating me were none too friendly. Although diagnostic procedures on me had hardly started, both of them had “concluded” that my problem was anemia due to malnutrition caused by a lack of sufficient fresh red meat in my diet.
I am not a big meat eater. Not a vegetarian to be sure, but I've always preferred fresh fruits and vegetables. For many years, no problem. Why would my metabolism change so dramatically? My radical diminution of appetite and sharp and sudden weight loss strongly suggested a gastrointestinal problem of considerable severity.
Both doctors emphatically rejected these considerations. At my suggestion that I may be suffering from a malignancy, they seemed to treat cancer as some exotically rare and obscure disease that hardly warranted consideration.
A couple of days later I spoke of these concerns with my congenial first hospitable roommate. A little while later, the younger doctor burst into the room livid, as if I had pulled a Donald Trump and grabbed her pussy. She had been informed that I still thought that cancer might be the root of my illness. “Мы лечим Вас как положено» - she fairly screamed at me.
Why such overt hostility? A patient has no right to reflect on his own condition?
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After three weeks in the hospital, the doctors had their final verdict: “Диагноз при выпыске: Хроническая железодефицитная анемия»
And the Выписной эпикриз contained these “beauties”:
“Живот мягкий» - a lie!
“На фоне проведенной терапии слабость прошла, аппетит улучшился» - damned lies on both counts!
“Рекомендации: Лекартственные препараты: Сорбифер (an iron supplement), Престариум (to lower blood pressure)
Диета: полноценное питание (мясные продукты)»...
«Лечащий врач: Аникеева НА
Зав. отделением: Кошкина ГИ»
On handing me this death warrant, the senior doctor insisted that my “malnutrition-causing anemia” would take many, many months to “cure.” “Надо потерпеть» - she emphasized.
The worst possible advice to offer someone with an aggressive malignancy...
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Back home, I bought expensive (by рынок standards) meat and ate what I could, nausea notwithstanding. I daily went to a nearby McDonalds and forced myself to eat a Big Mac or even something meatier. I faithfully took the recommended medication.
But my symptons did not improve. In fact, I was in even worse shape. My hemoglobin remained at very low levels and I could only walk 30 steps or so before I had to stop and rest. I continued to lose weight. Bowel movements became increasingly difficult.
I kept going to doctors, searching for an answer. I believed even more strongly that cancer was the culprit, but I witnessed repeatedly that other physicians took the rotten эпикриз ГКБ № 55 at face value, assuming that cancer as a probable cause had been excluded at the hospital. And I had to go scurrying in various directions to search for the answer. “Scurrying” is not the proper word, as I was having trouble just getting around. But using the phone was excluded, as the CIA-FSB intercept every call I make.
The first breakthrough came when a radiologist noted that radioactive barium sulfate progressed very, very slowly through my GI tract, suggesting a partial obstruction. “Не могу исключить рак» - she told me.
Then a urologist-consultant, after palpating my abdomen for no more than 30 seconds, located the tumor which the doctors at ГКБ № 55 «could not find.” The lump by this time had become sore to the touch. He emphasized that this “шишка» was the source of my problems. “This patient's illness is not urological,” he wrote in his notes.
Then a hematologist, through a series of blood and ultrasound analyses inferred that I had a serious life-threatening malignancy. “Time is not your friend,” she correctly warned.
After examining me, a proctologist immediately arranged for my admission to a hospital for further evaluation and possible surgery.
To be continued...
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!! Всё это — ещё доказательство, что настоящий действующий закон в США — Закон джунглей.
ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕНО !!
ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в ВКонтакте!
The two doctors treating me were none too friendly. Although diagnostic procedures on me had hardly started, both of them had “concluded” that my problem was anemia due to malnutrition caused by a lack of sufficient fresh red meat in my diet.
I am not a big meat eater. Not a vegetarian to be sure, but I've always preferred fresh fruits and vegetables. For many years, no problem. Why would my metabolism change so dramatically? My radical diminution of appetite and sharp and sudden weight loss strongly suggested a gastrointestinal problem of considerable severity.
Both doctors emphatically rejected these considerations. At my suggestion that I may be suffering from a malignancy, they seemed to treat cancer as some exotically rare and obscure disease that hardly warranted consideration.
A couple of days later I spoke of these concerns with my congenial first hospitable roommate. A little while later, the younger doctor burst into the room livid, as if I had pulled a Donald Trump and grabbed her pussy. She had been informed that I still thought that cancer might be the root of my illness. “Мы лечим Вас как положено» - she fairly screamed at me.
Why such overt hostility? A patient has no right to reflect on his own condition?
////////////////////////////////////
After three weeks in the hospital, the doctors had their final verdict: “Диагноз при выпыске: Хроническая железодефицитная анемия»
And the Выписной эпикриз contained these “beauties”:
“Живот мягкий» - a lie!
“На фоне проведенной терапии слабость прошла, аппетит улучшился» - damned lies on both counts!
“Рекомендации: Лекартственные препараты: Сорбифер (an iron supplement), Престариум (to lower blood pressure)
Диета: полноценное питание (мясные продукты)»...
«Лечащий врач: Аникеева НА
Зав. отделением: Кошкина ГИ»
On handing me this death warrant, the senior doctor insisted that my “malnutrition-causing anemia” would take many, many months to “cure.” “Надо потерпеть» - she emphasized.
The worst possible advice to offer someone with an aggressive malignancy...
////////////////////////////////
Back home, I bought expensive (by рынок standards) meat and ate what I could, nausea notwithstanding. I daily went to a nearby McDonalds and forced myself to eat a Big Mac or even something meatier. I faithfully took the recommended medication.
But my symptons did not improve. In fact, I was in even worse shape. My hemoglobin remained at very low levels and I could only walk 30 steps or so before I had to stop and rest. I continued to lose weight. Bowel movements became increasingly difficult.
I kept going to doctors, searching for an answer. I believed even more strongly that cancer was the culprit, but I witnessed repeatedly that other physicians took the rotten эпикриз ГКБ № 55 at face value, assuming that cancer as a probable cause had been excluded at the hospital. And I had to go scurrying in various directions to search for the answer. “Scurrying” is not the proper word, as I was having trouble just getting around. But using the phone was excluded, as the CIA-FSB intercept every call I make.
The first breakthrough came when a radiologist noted that radioactive barium sulfate progressed very, very slowly through my GI tract, suggesting a partial obstruction. “Не могу исключить рак» - she told me.
Then a urologist-consultant, after palpating my abdomen for no more than 30 seconds, located the tumor which the doctors at ГКБ № 55 «could not find.” The lump by this time had become sore to the touch. He emphasized that this “шишка» was the source of my problems. “This patient's illness is not urological,” he wrote in his notes.
Then a hematologist, through a series of blood and ultrasound analyses inferred that I had a serious life-threatening malignancy. “Time is not your friend,” she correctly warned.
After examining me, a proctologist immediately arranged for my admission to a hospital for further evaluation and possible surgery.
To be continued...
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Правительство США жестоко нарушало мои права человека при проведении кампании террора, которая заставила меня покинуть свою родину и получить политическое убежище в СССР. См. книгу «Безмолвный террор — История политических гонений на семью в США» - "Silent Terror: One family's history of political persecution in the United States» - arnoldlockshin.wordpress.com
Правительство США еще нарушает мои права, в течении 14 лет отказывается от выплаты причитающейся мне пенсии по старости. Властители США воруют пенсию!! Всё это — ещё доказательство, что настоящий действующий закон в США — Закон джунглей.
ФСБ - Федеральная служба «безопасности» России - вслед за позорным, предавшим страну предшественником КГБ, выполняет приказы секретного, кровавого хозяина (boss) - американского ЦРУ (CIA). Среди таких «задач» - мне запретить выступать в СМИ и не пропускать большинства отправленных мне комментариев. А это далеко не всё...
Арнольд Локшин, политэмигрант из США
BANNED – ЗАПРЕЩЕНО !!
ЦРУ - ФСБ забанили все мои посты и комментарии в ВКонтакте!