When have a patient
you really have very few objective ways to evaluate
hospitals or physicians. Its nothing of a well-kept secret
locally, this was not the first place I went.
It's like a hidden gem. Its like a hidden jem well, the first place I went
misdiagnosed me. yeah. So had I
really relied upon their diagnosis, you'd be looking at an empty chair here
The one thing that is evident, is the difference in the culture that exists here.
Everythings different The attitude is different, the culture is different.
You see it's
immediately evident that, okay
this is a world-class facility, and that's the level at which everything moves towards.
This is the map of US and they're only in nineteen cancer centers
in the country
that are a part of NCCN. NCCN stands for National Comprehensive Cancer
Network.
What that means doctors from these 19 centers
write the guidelines for Cancer Care which are updated every year
and these guidelines are followed across the country
and when I travel across the world I see there followed across the world as well.
So when you come to someone like me
all my colleagues at the Fred Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
you're probably talking to someone that has written those guidelines
and if you look at the company that we're in
this Sloan kettering there, there is Johns Hopkins there
this MD anderson there and just within the last week or 2
Yale joined this network and the place where you were thinking of driving up
north Mayo Clinic in Rochester joined this network just a few weeks ago
K it's a hidden gem issue said and you really don't need to go anywhere if you
come here
you getting the latest care and that's why when I see patients I may have told
this to you as well
on whichever day I see them on today the current recommendations are that
we are people from these centers that right the guidelines. When they find out
that they have cancer,
the initial shock is that its a death sentence
and once you get over that the only names that come to you are these means
from different parts of the country
but the hope is that as we move forward we keep telling you that you come to
Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center and you're going to get the best care.
It's not for the sake of bragging but its for the sake of letting the
good citizens from the state know that
you get the same quality care here. The ability to have that can a world-class
treatment
locally, and not have to travel and not have to live in a Holiday Inn for
a thousand miles away
is huge. If you you had cancer, where would you go?
And that's really that's really kind of litmus test
Thats what I was given by the people I respect highly was, The Med Center.
We have one of the largest groups
of fellowship trained surgical oncologists in the region
and what we mean by fellowship training is that
after we do at regular training, we spend an extra few years
just taking care of patients with cancer and nothing else.
I don't think many people in this city
or the region or the state realize that we have 10 the
large or larger group the fellowship trained cancer surgeons
and we also do state-of-the-art research
in fact if you look at it for some cancers
we probably have some of the most accomplished researchers
in the country not maybe the world when you come to a cancer center like that
you getting the best cancer care in the country if you've got any type of cancer
you can get world-class care right in your backyard
without having to travel anywhere, and you can get it with nice
mid western hospitality