The Patient’s Wife Thought Her Husband Was Being Treated for the Wrong Disease. She Was Right.

[Alvin]

“I guess it’s my time,” the 50-year-old man said quietly as his wife drove him home from his doctor’s office in southwest Houston. “No,” his wife responded sharply. “I won’t accept that. We’re going to get a second opinion.” To the patient, a software engineer and father of two teenage girls, it seemed as if this was the end of his 14 months of rapid decline from a robust man to this skeleton who needed a walker to get from car to door.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/...ated-for-the-wrong-disease-she-was-right.html

 

[Little Bluestem]

Good for his wife for 'doctor shopping' until they found someone who could/would help.