Oh No | Just Diagnosed

JKD123

As I was getting sonogram, the hotshot radiologist so arrogantly announced, “Well, I have good news and bad news. Good news is you got your mammogram, the bad news is you have cancer.” Just like that. Heartless. I was so shocked I couldn’t respond. Left the appointment and cried all the way home.

legaljen1969

WOW, that is seldom news the radiologist delivers. Does your hospital have an ombudsman or patient advocate you can contact about the unkind way you were treated? I mean, I am sure he/she was telling the truth and maybe just is a blunt person. But delivery of a cancer diagnosis in such a cavalier manner is pretty brutal.
I am sorry to hear about your diagnosis period, whether it had been delivered with the kindest approach ever OR by someone with the bedside manner of a brutal dictator.
In the first sentence you say were getting a sonogram, and later the radiologist says your mammogram.
My first thought was whether you were having follow up testing after your mammogram and maybe the radiologist thought you already knew you "might" have cancer.

In any case, we are all here for you to lift you up at the times you feel sad or beaten down.

Welcome to the club no-one ever wanted to join, but the club with the most compassionate members ever.

ITLBOK

Brutal!!!! Not acceptable. Needs to get a life. I don't know where you are but don't go back and let the community know!

beachbum5817

That is just awful. Even if he was 100% sure, I don't think it was his place to tell you, and it certainly should not have been in that way. The person who told me was my breast surgeon, and he didn't say it until he had the biopsy results.

PaulineJ

This rudeness is everywhere today.This is the world/End times your living in .

MarcieB

I think you should report this person and I am not even kidding.

Bug

Wow. Poor bedside manner to say the least. I'm sorry you had to experience that.