Re: Diary of a Tumor

Araik Margarian wrote:

> "madiba" <down@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> .> As to your questions regarding my identity, none of your business.
>
> Of course my business:
> You give here qualified advice (Thanks).
> This is not like other groups where anything goes.
> You named me "paranoid poet" and mocked me as if I am myself prolonging
> the treatment, so as if preparing excuse for predetermined bad outcome.
> After my angrily response to that post, my newsfeed account was canceled
> arbitrarily
> which I was not able to restore for 2 days.
> You tell me I need pet-scan and CXR and other professional advice
> and if it is not what my doctor do, it's as you create conflict between us.
> So, of course it's important to know if you get qualified advise from a real
> doctor with
> integrity or if this is just game for unknown reasons.
>
> Now you, it seems, inadvertently responded by your other "identity" then
> corrected
> it in an hour sending the same message by "madiba".
>
> Of course it's important to know who you are.
>
> > In real life I'm neither Ray nor madiba.
> ... And nor doctor?
>
> > For the purposes of this NG
> > I chose the moniker madiba, a wise old man like me. :-/
> > I used to give advice on the net with my real name, but that was in the
> > early days when we were all still a bit naive about this wonderful
> > communications tool, and I was spammed to death..
>
> Explanation sounds good.
> I myself get too many spam and scam.
> But I guess there are easy ways to protect yourself from spam
> and not "hide" your real name - just forge your email.
> Again, you, as professional, take serious responsibility - volunteer to
> help most disadvantageous people.
> How is that Steph use his real name?

Hello Araik,
I'm stepping in here to tell you that madiba is a radiation oncologist, currently in
Europe.
He's been posting, on these newsgroups, long before I was here.

I have Steph's credentials. he's in Canada.
Not everyone posts with their real name to newsgroups.

I hope you can appreciate that these cancer newsgroups are fortunate that busy
specialists take the time to volunteer to answer questions.
However, if their real names were known, patients could try and contact them at their
place of work (to ask further questions), so it's not just a spam issue, in my opinion.
This would not be helpful to their own patients - would cause delays.
In fact there were American doctors, on these newsgroups, some years ago, but they quit
posting (answering questions). One said it was liability issue. I suspect, that it was
also financial. If they answer questions here, they don't get paid to answer them in
their offices.

There's a few (non-cancer) doctors on a few other newsgroups, but mostly they tell
people to ask their own doctors. Sometimes one or the other will given general answers.

The cancer newsgroups, in my opinion, are very fortunate to have these doctors answer
questions for us.
If you post questions, to other newsgroups, it's just other patients answering other
patients, no training at all.

So you accept suggestions and information (from them) or you reject it.
If you don't want their suggestions or information, don't ask for it.
If you just want to vent (but don't want input), just put that at the bottom of your
post and they'll ignore you.
Best wishes,
J

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