Doctors are your Healing Partners - Revisited

I wrote this post last year and thought it was worth another look:

I was re-reading a great, basic primer about dealing with cancer called Cancer- 50 Essential Things to Do, by Greg Anderson today. In Chapter 18, Anderson discusses operating under new assumptions. My favorite is this: Instead of being the authority, a doctor or other health care professionals are your healing partners. As a former coach, I imagine that I am assembling a medical team. My internist or general practitioner, my oncologist, oncology nurses, specialists at Mayo clinic, a nutritionist and naturopathic doctor. Your team might also include an exercise or occupational therapist, chiropractor and/or counselor. Almost everyone that enters the health care profession wants to help you, their patient. It is your job to coach, coordinate or orchestrate their efforts to maximize this help. Like other, more traditional coaches and teams, there will wins and losses. Good days and bad. It isn't easy. But you can do it!

Feel good and keep smiling! Pat