Acknowledgements to doctors, staff, a fellow writer and costs of cancer
Editor’s Note: When the staff presents one a yellow rose for undergoing 42 times of radiation, one thinks for a moment about them and their daily lives, then the reflection is upon one who has come through without bruises and becomes inspired by the well wishes of a fellow journalist.
George C. Jordan III acknowledges the staff, including Dr. Wade J. Gerbera and Dr. Michael J. Sheridan notes the cost associated with treatment for prostate cancer.
I wish to thank the team for their support including: Lisa Jackson, Claudia Ogilvie, Kevin Maroney, Rose Lanigan, Jorge Londoño, Diane Boyer.
They one and all at numerous times helped me weigh through the procedure.
The one word that was coined by the staff and myself was: steamer. This is a hot blanket that was draped over me daily to help keep me warm on the cold slab while the radiation machine did its work.
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I wish to tip my hat to our reporter, Dana Drugmand, who covers the environment and is a graduate from Mount Holyoke College, for her interest and her learning of cancer and how it affected one individual.
To take the science of cancer and merge it with the human factor of a husband and wife and reach out to a famous book writer, who suffers from having cancer, it a remarkable chore in journalism.
Joseph McGinniss is profiled in this tab not only for his former location Williamstown, but also for his national notoriety, but also as a human being, who like many others, can develop cancer. He notes it, he lives it, and admirably can speak about it.
His kind words speaks volumes about one writer to another:
“Please tell Mr. Jordan how pleased I am to hear that he has apparently completed a successful course of treatment,”Mr. McGinniss said.
Finally, one of the keys is cost.
Getting cancer is usually not about the money and what one will spend or save. Many people have health insurance plans to cover the costs of cancer treatments. For those who don’t in Massachusetts, there is the MassHealth plan, offered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Most people are focused on getting treatment and looking for a positive result. The bottom line: The sooner one detects cancer, the sooner a plan can be formulated for the individual.
In the end, how to equate cost vs. living?
The estimated costs for Mr. Jordan were:
-BMC, $92,983.11
-Dr. Gebara, $14,410
-Dr. Noyes, $3,157
-a total of $110,550.11.
Depending on your health insurance plan, the costs could be higher/lower.
Posted by George C. Jordan III
on July 25, 2013. Filed under Community News,News.
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