After you've been treated for cancer, your primary care doctor will play an important role in your health care, says palliative medicine specialist Dr. Stewart Fleishman. Watch the video to learn more.
Most insurance companies these days insist that you see a primary care provider, not necessarily doctor, could be advanced practice nurse, a physician's assistant. Forward or back of your treatment after you finish your cancer treatment. Now that's good and bad. They know you, you know them, they can manage all your other illnesses if you have them, or they understand you and your family and everything that, is necessary to maintain a healthy lifestyle.
Many, primary care doctors that are unfamiliar with the number of the things they need to look for and the intervals for surveillance after cancer treatments, so they need the oncology care team to provide the best care possible. These days that's often done through a lot of communication, via electronic paper or even by telephone, and proving use of survivorship care plans or personal health records.
Stewart Fleishman, MD, is a cancer researcher and the author of companion books, LEARN to Live Through Cancer: What You Need to Know and Do and the Manual of Cancer Treatment Recovery: What the Practitioner Needs to Know and Do.
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