Synergy Hematology

My mother was diagnosed with Cancer and first we went to see the head of Oncology at UCLA but my mother wanted a second opinion. My uncle suggested Dr. Bick and to be honest he offered us a lot of hope and his energy was positive.
After months of treatment once, sometimes twice a week; it seems as though The chemo was helping; However my mother took a turn for the worse. Her heart was failing to pump enough and her lungs would slowly fill with water.
Dr Bick suggested a surgery to resolve the problem. However nor I or my mother realize that she would never be able to recover from surgery due to the fact that the chemo had taken all her white blood cells and she would need those cells to heal.
She stayed in recover for a month. Until the insurance would no longer cover her stay. They sent her home and only after one night I had to call the medics because she couldn’t breath.
As she lay in her deathbed in the hospital, Dr Bick came to see her.
He looked at her chart and looked at me and said «she shouldn’t make it through the night» he put down her chart and said «goodbye» and walked out the door.
I felt as though we were a register he could not ring anymore.
The sad thing about out system is that fact that we are pawns in the health care business.
I don’t regret the 18 months I spent caring for my mother. I dont regret moving from my home in the hollywood hills. To a building with no steps so she could walk.
I don’t regret having to stay home instead of going out with friends when she got sick. And I don’t regret the last months when she got really sick. I only regret taking her to Dr Bick.