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Brain Tumor Survival Guide3. Get help taking care of your family.Trust me. The medical aspects of your case will be taken care of. That's easy. Doctors get paid for what they do; be it surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy. However, nobody gets paid for providing emotional support to you, your family or friends. Sometimes doctors, nurses or social workers do this. But they are doing this out of the goodness of their heart; they don't have to.As medicine becomes more like a bottom-line oriented business, the provision of emotional support becomes a forgotten area in the overall care of the patient. In reality few people do things for free on a routine basis. But to be fair, health care workers are continually pre-occupied with life and death decisions on other patients. Once your surgery has been done, chemotherapy administered or whatever, the medical professional always has someone else to worry about. People who have "been there" seem to be very generous with their time and compassion toward others who are now sick. Support groups are a good way of knowing what's in store for you and your family. Join one as soon as possible. They can be found on line (a good place to start) and at most major teaching hospitals. |
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