Is This the Right Doctor for Me?

I didn’t really like this surgeon very much. She was so young and soft spoken.

BY Kathy LaTour

PUBLISHED October 05, 2018

Kathy LaTour is a breast cancer survivor, author of The Breast Cancer Companion and co-founder of CURE magazine. While cancer did not take her life, she has given it willingly to educate, empower and enlighten the newly diagnosed and those who care for them.

Many people say that being diagnosed with cancer is scary. I just don’t think that word does the moment justice. I couldn’t organize my thoughts or really decide what to do next. My obstetrician sent me for a mammogram when I first found a month. When she called me back on Friday (of course), I found myself asking her to define things in a language I didn’t speak.

After a career in journalism, I was used to asking questions and knew how do to so rather well. But how do you ask questions about something you know nothing about? It reminded me of my first day at a large newspaper where I was to accompany another reporter to interview a world- renowned architect who had designed the new city hall. I planned to listen and learn. That was before this reporter, who I hope had this done to him one day, turned to me and said, “Why don’t you start.”
I didn’t have the words to ask the doctor what to do next and at least when I was talking about architecture, my life didn’t depend on what I did or did not know.

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