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A story of 2 teenage girls with tumours ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() shattered me and my family. “Your 19 year old daughter has tumours in her chest and lung. If it is cancerous, it could be stage 3 or 4 based on the MRI indication of the tumour sizes”. The GH Cancer Centre broke the news to us. My daughter was coughing for 6 months and had medical treatments at Polyclinics and also private clinic GP for at least 5 times but was treated for cough and common cold each time with another course of Antibiotics. It was at the insistence of my wife after my daughter told us she started coughing blood that the doctor agreed to send her for an X-ray. The result showed dark shadows of the right lung and upper middle chest. I was hoping it might be TB when the Polyclinic referred my daughter (from here on renamed as “S” to protect her identity) to the Singapore Cancer Centre to do a series of CT and MRI examinations. Conclusion, she has a large tumour in her chest cavity and also right lung. They tried biopsy but got negative result. However CT scan confirmed suspected “Teratoma”, just uncertain whether it is benign or malignant. That’s when the fear really set in. What if it was malignant? Doctors and surgeon at Cancer Centre recommended immediate surgery to remove tumour to get a better assessment her condition. Friends surrounded us with prayers when we finally agreed to go ahead with the open chest surgery. The Good Doctor told us we need to queue for surgery but he will FIGHT for a vacancy if and when there was cancellation as he said “no time to lose with possibly such a late stage of tumour/cancer”. I got a call a week later to say, “come to the hospital tonight to sign the agreement to operate on S early next morning”. We were really in a dilemma as the lead surgeon explained then and there that was a 10% chance for the patient in such open chest surgery not waking up and if they accidentally cut into the main artery adjoining the tumour lump, the chance of complication and death is quite high.. Fast forward. Last week, I went with S for her anniversary check up. After CT scan, the surgeon who by now had left GH Cancer Centre told us the good news is there is no sign of a recurrence. As the tumour was benign, no need for any post surgery treatment required. The good surgeon congratulated S and said she now has a clean bill of health. He then related to us a sad story. A young teenage girl patient, 14 years old, who has a similar but less serious tumour condition, requiring open chest surgery was operated by his ex-colleagues at GH had passed away, a few days post operation, a week or so ago. The girl delayed her operation as she was hoping to finish her final term examination in Sep before the major operation. The chilling thoughts the good surgeon left us was “the surgeon who operated on this poor teenage girl was supposed to be the one originally schedule to operate on S”. What went wrong, we may ask? No one really can say with certainty. What we heard from the good surgeon was GH now does not have senior surgeons who are very experienced and most likely many good and experienced doctors chose to leave GH, like our good surgeon did, because of internal politics which favours elitist approach. I would not delved more into what I heard from our good doctor/surgeon. It sufficed to raise two points of queries relating to this sad case. 1) Is the poor teenage girl a victim of circumstances? Circumstance (A): She tried to conform and cling to the expectation of our school system which stressed so much on exams. So much so it may be deemed more important? (to her life???). Circumstance (B): MOH failed to retained good and experienced TOP surgeons and doctors. All that we get in Polyclinics nowadays are FT doctors or LO (left over) and newbie doctors??? Does our Government values lives of such young teenagers and Singaporean, in general, lesser than the KPI of maintaining an extremely low budget health services for its citizens??? Ministry of Hell Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com. |
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