Opinion: How Susan Love changed medical care for breast cancer patients (via latimesopinion )
In the end, a lowly tape recorder helped to change the face of breast cancer treatment.at age 75, was in the early 1990s the director of the UCLA Breast Center, which was designed to turn the world of breast cancer treatment on its head.
Love rejected the standard protocol that had a patient running all over town, her X-rays in her bag, seeing one specialist after another and waiting for them to talk and get back to her. At the UCLA center, a patient spent the afternoon in an exam room, as one specialist after another came to see her. After that, the doctors sat together to generate a treatment plan, which made little sense in terms of the economics of medical practices, but all the sense in the world for the care of patients.
It’s hard to overstate what a radical perspective that was, only 30 years ago. But in fact too many active, capable women showed up for their medical appointments feeling suddenly lost, subsumed by their diagnoses.Love set out to change all that, and the tape recorders were just the first step. She urged patients to appoint an advocate, one of those attentive family members or friends, to attend appointments, be around if surgery was required, be the chauffeur for radiation sessions.
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