{"id":29713,"date":"2022-04-06T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=29713"},"modified":"2022-04-02T09:42:23","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T13:42:23","slug":"malpractice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/06\/malpractice\/","title":{"rendered":"MALPRACTICE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My wife,<\/strong> <\/span>Alice, said the sore on my nose wasn\u2019t healing, so I went to the dermatologist. He said, \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure this is cancer. Basel cell carcinoma. If it\u2019s benign, we won\u2019t call you back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three weeks passed. No call back. Good. Nevertheless, I told Alice, \u201cMaybe I should call the doctor. He said he was pretty sure it was cancerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

I called. The skin doctor\u2019s receptionist put me on hold for five minutes. Then a nurse said, \u201cWe\u2019re waiting for a fax.\u201d I waited a long time.<\/p>\n

The doctor got on the line: \u201cI have to apologize. We are using a new lab, and they failed to send a report to us. I take the blame. I should have followed up. It\u2019s basil cell carcinoma, just like I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skin cancer. I hate<\/span> that — when you beg for a diagnosis and get a bad one. Suddenly my world revolved around appointments and follow-ups. I went to a specialist who did Mohs surgery — deep-dish nose drilling.<\/p>\n

What if<\/strong><\/span> I hadn\u2019t called the dermatologist? Nobody nose.<\/p>\n

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I wrote an op-ed about baby-naming for the WSJ last week. “Who’ll Win the Baby Name Game.”<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife, Alice, said the sore on my nose wasn\u2019t healing, so I went to the dermatologist. He said, \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure this is cancer. Basel cell carcinoma. If it\u2019s benign, we won\u2019t call you back.\u201d Three weeks passed. No call back. Good. Nevertheless, I told Alice, \u201cMaybe I should call the doctor. He said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29713"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29752,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29713\/revisions\/29752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}