People in pain are often not believed
Especially not if they are female and/or black
Because there is no objective method for measuring pain yet, you cannot prove that you are suffering. You depend on whether others believe you. In particular, people of color, women and pain patients whose medical cause is not found are still affected.
Did patients under treatment with this oncologist die earlier?
Disciplinary law Twelve disciplinary complaints were filed against a Radboudumc oncologist. “She just didn't listen.”
Among other things, the oncologist would not have taken patients' pain symptoms seriously, prescribed too high doses of chemo and made other wrong choices. She would have advised against second opinions. During the hearing, it was discussed that the oncologist had not read tens of thousands of messages from the internal mail system — while there are important results. At one point, there were 74 unread emails from patients. About the mail delay, the oncologist says that she suffered from the workload due to, among other things, a divorce and a burnout.
