Woman denied a colonoscopy by her doctor died of colon cancer at 39, friend says in viral Twitter

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3. True. I had increasingly stabbing pain

in my leg and asked my doc for an MRI of it. She decided the pain was coming from my spine and ordered an x-ray. Nothing showed. I said MRI of leg please. Went for my MRI and it was of my spine! Nothing. At that point my beloved doc of 25 yrs suggested PT. I said I was not going to PT in advance of a dx. Again, demanded an MRI of my leg. She finally relented.

Got out of the MRI at 5 pm. At 6:30 pm my doc called, distraught and apologetic, saying I had cancer and she had been talking to an orthopedist and another doc and best guess was sarcoma and bone cancer. A tumor had broken my tibia. She called me 2 more times that evening to check on me and said, TG I finally listened to you.

She was a great doc, just got tunnel vision. To her credit she recognized it and in the subsequent months bent the earth to make it up to me. Got me the best care with one of the top specialist oncology surgeons in the country on a relative dime.

But yeah, listen to your patients.