Advocate for Care

More evidence that as a patient, you have to tirelessly advocate for your care. The Times has done an expose on radiation errors. A theme throughout the piece is that someone failed to test the equipment after programming it. As a result, a man's entire head (including his brain stem) was radiated repeatedly. A woman had a hole burned into her chest, and the hole would not heal. Radiation has obviously saved a lot of lives, so mistakes shouldn't scare people away. Just hold your health team accountable and make them convince you that they have the appropriate safety measures in place.