Rude Doctors?

The idea is that you complete the series of chemo. Having none or a smaller dose is not helpful in that the tumor may or may not be affected in the same way as before. Takes the critical dose to do the trick. So she has found a way of stopping all treatment since she wants to believe she is cured. No such thing as cured. This cancer is a villain that makes its presence known usually too late.

I still see my oncologist every year for the melanoma I had in 1999.

I would think it depends on the situation. If your mother has terminated treatment based on her own judgement and against the strong advice of not only one but two doctors and if your mother is refusing to follow the treatment the doctors tell her to. Then no, it isn't rude, it is the doctors giving up. A doctor cannot treat a patient who doesn't take the required medications etc.

However if your mother feels strongly that the treatment is not the right one for her (and she might be right after all), then her best option would be indeed to look for another opinion.

If not only one doctor but two tell a patient to look for somebody better somewhere else I would think that the patient has probably offended two doctors by telling them explicitly or implicitly that she thinks they are incompetent.

There is probably a lot more to the story than you tell.

no not at all. First of all, she refused treatment, if she does not want to listen to her advice, she can go get second opinions, it is pretty common actually. Secondly, yes, most doctors are not rude, but sometimes they are, had a bad day, no sleep etc. and they may be grumpy. As social people as they I myself as a medical student can say, most doctors are relatively normal, but we are all as Pagan Min have quirks since we literally go insane form studying and sleep deprivation.In this case it was not rudeness. If you ever have a rude doctor, do not tell him or her off immediately, sometimes people have a bad day, such as I have met grumpy fast food workers or annoying office clerks. People cannot be happy and smiley 24/7

you go to a doctor and they prescribe treatment

If you decline to take it or stop it part way through removes any obligation on them to treat you any more and also shows you do not either trust or believe you are gettign the correct treatment

So whats rude about telling you to go find somebody else when you are not happy to follow their treatment?

The 3 hours is your problem not theirs

One cannot entirely give oneself over to doctors. Ultimately we have to make choices for ourselves. Doctors bury the mistakes, an unkind comment but true. I think i will not allow chemo to destroy my final days.

doctors can be rude. some of them have strange personalities. you would have to be a little weird to go through THAT much freaking school and be that smart.

No, she refused their services, and is then upset because they wont offer their services... she made the choice

no maybe the city offers technology that she will benefit from.