Reducing Cancer Care Costs and Hospital Stays

There are two really irritating things about cancer care for me. (Well there are really lots of things that irritate me about cancer care. I could make a giant list of them if anyone really cared but today I am going to focus on two things.Cancer care is ridiculously expensive. You can take a drug for $100,000 that might increase your lifespan for a couple of months. A single chemo infusion can cost upwards of $20,000.And at the least sign of germs or low blood counts, you are sent to the emergency room where they admit you. That is a really stupid part. You feel like crap on a Friday night, you call your oncologist and they send you to the emergency room for blood tests and then they admit you after you sit in a room full of car accident victims and finally end up in a really uncomfortable bed with IV antibiotics. Really not a good idea.The second annoying issue is how quickly doctors throw more drugs at cancer patients. Here, take this too and this and this and this. Let ' s get you some skilled nurses at home to help you with some fancy new equipment. Each one adds another triple zero item to your bills.(I could rant on about the annoying part of going to daily radiation for weeks and weeks.)But finally there are two new ideas that are focused on reducing cancer care costs and hospital stays. (Its about time.) Anyway here are the two new ideas:Oncologist Dr Barbara McAneny in Albuquerque, NMlooked at how her cancer patients dealt with hospital stays and ER visits due to lo...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer care cancer costs hospital Source Type: blogs