Can I ask to see a different oncologist.

Hi 

I was just wondering if I can ask to be moved to another consultant. I'm stage 4 Breast cancer with mets in my spine . I find the one I see now detached and unapproachable. I don't get anything out of my appointment but a feeling of being useless and unimportant. I ask questions but he is reluctant to enter into any discussion with me . I hope this doesn't come across as a self important whine , he is well respected but I just don't feel at all comfortable with him . Just wondered if anyone else had experience of this . 

  • You have two choices if i remember others convos properly, either call your current consultant's secretary and ask to get moved to another or contact the hospital's PALS team. Unless it's the only consultant around, then folk are free to change health professionals at anytime.

    Without any sort of patient doctor relationship/trust or a breakdown in that relationship/trust, it doesn't serve either side to just plod on.