Monday, January 18, 2016

Must read!--Bumped from June 2015 since "Dateline" just aired the story----Must read!-----Whistle-blower: How doctor uncovered nightmare

Very brave doctor vs very evil doctor!
Whistle-blower: How doctor uncovered nightmare:
"...But it was Flagg's stumble over a suitcase, and Soe Maunglay's determined follow-through over the next weeks, that precipitated Fata's own fall.
Making Fata's rounds that July day, Maunglay checked for the first time on Flagg, hospitalized with two fractures in her left leg.
Because Maunglay is a cancer doctor, he paid heed to her multiple myeloma diagnosis, the Velcade injection, and the medical record before him.
It all triggered an internal alarm...
"Who told you that you have cancer?" he asked her."

...As a cancer specialist, he had a special understanding of the horror he was witnessing, its cruelty. Fata's choice of myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells in bone marrow, bespoke a certain shrewdness, because of the subjectivity of diagnosis.
It was a clever niche for false doctoring.
"You cannot fake lung cancer," he says. "You cannot fake a tumor ..."
But with this disease, a malevolent doctor could plausibly use the treatment itself as a smokescreen to obscure future questions....

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