Do you trust your doctor?

A while back I started writing about my history and left the story unfinished.  Believe me it will take a while but I feel the need to write it all down and let it go.  So last thing I wrote was that at the age of 15 I had a tumor removed from my neck.  The tumor turned out to be thyroid cancer.  The doctor essentially said that they would do radiation but then I was good to go.  I would have no more chance of developing cancer later in life than anyone else.  Now that sounds like good news huh.  Well sort of, I still had cancer after all.  I had the radiation treatment, which was interesting.  Imagine sitting in a bed, at 15 years of age, in a hospital gown because of radiation contamination, and a guy walks in wearing a suit to safe guard him from the radiation.  He whips out a metal straw and a metal container along with a radiation monitoring device.  Tells me to drink.  Sounds appetizing huh.  Then he uses the radiation monitor while slowly moving out of the room.  Says the radioactivity is such that no one can enter but he'll come back tomorrow and test again.  Which he did for a few days straight placing a peice of tape on the floor and slowly moving it toward the bed until I was able to be released.  Then I went about my life, on medication for thyroid hormone replacement, and really never thought about it again.

Flash forward 15 years.  Yup 15 years of bliss 'til the other shoe dropped.  I just had my first miscarriage.  The doctor noted my tsh (thyroid stimulating hormone level) was in the hyperthyroid range.  He asked when I had last seen an endocrinologist.  I replied with a, "never".  Doc gave me the raised eyebrow look.  You see the doctor I saw when I was 15 was a surgeon.  No one ever referred me to an endocrinologist.  So off I went.  The endo ordered some bloodwork and lowered my meds.  My next appointment, around 2 weeks after my miscarriage, he informs me I STILL HAVE CANCER.  Hello!  Let's go back to the "you have no more chance than anyone else".  What happened to THAT statement.  What REALLY irks me is I went back and got a copy of my medical records and everything in it suggested my cancer was never erradicated in the first place.  This is when I stopped trusting doctors and started doing ALOT of research.