Consultation Scheduled with Dr. David P. Winchester


Consultation re-scheduled with another surgeon for Monday, 12/23/02.

The purpose of this email is simply to tell you that the additional information that we hoped to have on Friday will be delayed until Monday. I'd also like to share with you some information about the surgeon we chose for the consultation, Dr. David P. Winchester.

Dr. David P. Winchester--not to be confused with Dr. David J. Winchester, his son--is a faculty member at Northwestern University's medical school and chairs Surgical Oncology there. Breast surgery is one of his specialties and he has written numerous journal articles about the disease Ann has, DCIS. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Evanston Northwestern Healthcare (ENH) Medical Group which comprises the nearly 1,000 primary and specialty care physicians at: Evanston Hospital, Glenbrook Hospital (where Ann had her stereotactic core needle biopsy), and Highland Park Hospital. Additional information about Dr. D.P. Winchester and ENH is available online:

  http://www.surgery.northwestern.edu/content/ShowMemberPage.asp?typ=faculty&mbr_ik=77
  http://www.enh.org/aboutus/orgprofile.asp

We were very impressed with Dr. D.P. Winchester's credentials and look forward to meeting him.

In case you were wondering why our consultation has been rescheduled....

On Monday (12/16) Ann's gynecologist called her with the pathologist's diagnosis, gave her the names and phone numbers of three surgeons and recommended that she schedule a consultation. We took an appointment with the first surgeon on the list who participated in our insurance plans. This was an appointment with Dr. David J. Winchester on Friday (12/20). After two days of researching DCIS, treatment options, and providers we decided to schedule the appointment with Dr. David P. Winchester instead because his credentials seemed impeccable. I was told that the father's "bedside manner" was not as good as the son's but we decided that the years of experience were more important. We shall see.

Finally, some Administrivia....

I plan to continue to send out emails like this to keep you informed. I'm hoping that this will reduce the time and emotion of re-telling the same facts over and over to each of you individually. It also makes sure that everyone has the same facts; getting your information directly from me as opposed one person telling another person eliminates incomplete or inaccurate information caused by the re-telling.

Hopefully, using email like this will improve communication not stifle or even formalize it. We all love Ann and want to know what is happening with her even though we live far from one another and have busy schedules.

If you have questions that aren't answered in an email or just want to talk feel free to call or email with your questions, concerns, whatever. (As I've mentioned before, however, please do not call Ann at work and don't send email to her since she receives it all at work.)

If you know someone else who should be on this list tell me and I'll add them.

If you have other ideas on how I should keep people informed please let me know.

Thank you for your support.

Posted: Wed - December 18, 2002 at 12:00 AM        

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