If your doctor has told you that you have a life threatening disease like cancer or ALS or Parkinson’s, you are probably thinking about treatment options and how you will adjust to your life with this disease. But ultimately you must be curious about the diagnoses itself. This cannot be an easy conclusion to take at face value, and while you certainly trust your doctor you cannot possibly trust that he hasn’t made any mistakes. And you shouldn’t. Your health is far too important to ever just take a doctors word for it. But what if that second opinion turns up completely different? It’s rare and most doctors can see and identify the same things, so what do you do then?
Well the first thing is not to panic. This has happened before. Usually with huge things like a tumor of something that has an conclusive test you wouldn’t get two different diagnosis but for other, less obvious diseases there is always the risk you run that you are not going to get the same diagnosis twice.
Make sure you talk with both of your physicians and see if there may have been anything that could have been compromised. Perhaps there were abnormalities in the lab. Perhaps there was blood that was contaminated. The other thing is to find out what both doctors did. Did they test for the same things? Did they perform the same in office examination? You have to make sure you are clear on what exactly is happening here and make sure that both doctors were on the same page.
You should have them talk to one another. As a professional courtesy they should talk to one another and determine where they were different in their diagnoses. If this still does not give you the answers or satisfaction you need then make sure to take your case to a world renowned hospital. Take it to a place that will give you exactly what you are looking for. There is an answer out there.
