LGBT Cancer — Survivor Tips — Tip 4

No. 4: Determine upfront how broad or narrow your physicians’ experience is.
If you have something that your doctor says, “I’ve never seen this before,”
get another doctor. You want your doctor to be very familiar with your
disease.

One of ten tips from Hamilton Jordan, the former White House chief of staff for President Jimmy Carter, a well-known force in the health community. During the past 24 years he battled four different forms of cancer and urged cancer patients to empower themselves with information.