Five weeks after Cathy Croskery’s right breast was biopsied for suspected cancer, she still hadn’t received the results.

She figured that was good news. It wasn’t.

The 58-year-old mother and wife eventually discovered she has invasive carcinoma, but had to track down that diagnosis herself.

Croskery doesn’t have a family doctor. She said that led to barriers getting into the system and a breakdown in communication in receiving test results that would ultimately land her in an operating room for a lumpectomy days after finally receiving them.

  • 0li0li@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Yeah, if you do not have a family doctor, sorry, you’re out of the private club you are funding with your taxes.

    This shit does not work anymore…