iMedicalConsult- Medical Second Opinion

Life changes the day you learn you have cancer. It continues to change as you receive treatment. Did you get a second opinion upon your diagnosis? If you haven’t, you really should find someone to give you one. It may be nearly identical to your first one, or one that varies and allows you to consider other options. Second opinions are common. It makes perfect sense for a cancer patient to request one. It’s probably more surprising if you don’t get one. And don’t worry that your doctor will be offended. They’re accustomed to patients seeking additional input about their health. There’s no denying that cancer is a devastating disease to fight. It’s also challenging for doctors. Consider the common cold. It doesn’t even take a doctor to diagnose it, tell you it will ultimately go away and recommend an over-the-counter drug to ease symptoms. Cancer is far more difficult to diagnose and manage. With technological advances for treatment and more options than ever before, you shouldn...

We have been away from India for some time now. We are blessed with a robust family back home that can take care of almost anything that might affect my parents. Although they live on their own but someone is always with then at anytime of the day…so blessed. Yet when my dad took really ill and had to go through surgery for a malignancy which affected his brain, it all came crashing down emotionally and for a while nothing really added up. I flew down and took him to the best hospitals I know and got multiple opinions. It was scary to see that the opinion varied sometimes. Some said that the condition was urgent and needed immediate attention while others said that we had time. Some suggested robotic surgery while others had a different approach. Although each idea seems to take us to the same place but we wanted to choose the right means to get there and the right time to do it. ” That’s when I googled up to see if second opinion (strictly counting 10th) was available fr...