CHAPTER 1      SEARCHING FOR ADVANCED TREATMENT OPTIONS 

IT’S A Two Step Process

My ultimate goal is to make sure that you become aware of all the most advanced treatment options for your disease and that you act upon the information.

The first part of the process is doing the research and becoming aware of the most advanced treatment options.

But, knowing what the most advanced, cutting-edge treatment options are, doesn’t guarantee that you’ll receive them.

               There’s A Critical Second Part Of The Process

This second part involves talking to your doctors about the advanced, cutting-edge treatment options you’ve discovered in your research.

This is the part of the process that I believe frightens patients the most. Let me restate here what I discussed in the introduction.

Just as patients will get more and more used to questioning their doctors in the next few years, doctors will get more and more used to being questioned by their patients.

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