Meeting Summary Feb. 27, 2008
The regular support group meeting was held at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC) Proton Therapy Center on Wed 2/27/2008. Lorianne Classen, a specialist from the Patient Education group presented a “New Patient/Family Orientation Class” to the group and called our attention to the vast programs and resources at the center. Those resources we may need and those we simply want to know about.
The keepers or take-aways, as I like to call them are:
- The MDA is very large organization and has a vast number of places where you “interface” or experience the system and this presentation provides and introduction to them. From locations of clinics, parking lots, support teams, restaurants, transportation, travel, and accomodations to the various programs and clinics at the center.
- The MDA handles 4000 outpatient appointments per day. A visit to the Mays Clinic for your follow up PSA tests will demonstrate the sheer number of patients being handled, and courteously and efficiently I’d like to add.
- There are many ways to access the Internet to get more information about the center and this presentation will help you find your way around.
- One of the valuable features of the Internet web site is the one dedicated to you myMDAnderson - https://my.mdanderson.org/ It’s a secure site that I’ve used it to confirm appointments, check billing and to send messages.
Attached you’ll find the 4 page presentation in PDF format. Patient Introduction. The use of portable data format (PDF) seems to be the practice at MDACC and I use it also since it’s more compact than other formats for documents and presentations and should be more readily readable by a wide variety of computers.
paljoe 3/4/2008
