Concerns are growing over the potential loss of the main doctor at the Institute of Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine (iRSM) that specializes in face and neck cancers.
Concerns are growing over the potential loss of the main doctor at the Institute of Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine in west Edmonton that specializes in face and neck cancers. Lisa MacGregor speaks with a patient who said her doctor's contract is up at the end of June.Patients at a world-renowned medical facility in west Edmonton fear the future of their care is in limbo because of a staffing issue.
“If somebody tells you they’re going to be rearranging your face and your mouth, that is scary,” Frederick said of the highly specialized surgeons who saved her life.Frederick said there were five teams in the operating room who worked together to remove the cancerous cheek and jaw bones, harvested other bone from her leg to go into her face, performed skin grafts, and then carried out the meticulous plastic surgery to reconstruct her appearance.
Two decades after her surgery, she sees her doctor semi-annually for checkups. At her most recent visit, Frederick said her physician told her his contract was up on June 30 and said there had been no communication with Covenant Health about his status. “There’s lots of prosthodontists around but they’re not trained to deal with the sensitivity of the tissue area — like the bone structure, the new structure,” Frederick said.The iRSM is a joint-venture between the University of Alberta, Alberta Health Services and Covenant Health, which runs the Misericordia Community Hospital in which the institute is located.
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