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Old Tue Apr 17, 2007, 02:18 AM
Chris Guerra Chris Guerra is offline
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Bone Marrow Biopsy

Tony and I have talked to patient relations and Dr. Robert Negrin Div. Chief for Oncology and Hemotology at Stanford. Stanford does not provide conscious sedation to their patients. Dr. Negrin said the Cancer Ctr. is not set up to provide this service. Our insurance does cover it, but Dr. Negrin said that some insurance companies do not.
After reading Wendy's post apparently concious sedation is provided at the Children's Hospital. Wendy, it's good that the Children's Hospital provides this service, my husband has told me that a BMB is a very uncomfortable procedure.
My own feelings are that as patients (myself included, as I am breast cancer patient) we have enough uncomfortable procedures perfomed on us. I would hope that these procedures could be performed with the least amount of pain and anxiety as possible.
Chris Guerra
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