re: MD Anderson is an incredible place.

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My wife said it best. When it comes to stage III cancer you don't want to be dealing with JazzFest doctors. You want to go to see a doctor who is so smart that he/she is incapable of relating to the common man. The doctor's life is dedicated to a cause.

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Doesn’t Ochsner have an affiliation agreement with MD Anderson giving you launching pad of service to see if they can treat it locally and refer you to their main campus if necessary.

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I recall often being in this clinic or that watching the people work and going in and out all around. In every instance, it was rare to see a white person. Never a white male. The rare white person sighting most often seemed to be a woman just passing through.

I have nothing against people with dark skin. My problem is all of the likely more qualified people being not even considered because of the color of their skin.

It is a great facility and impressively run but look beneath the surface and you wonder if you really are getting the level of care that is advertised.

I think not

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I, too, judge people based solely on the color of their skin. Especially people dedicated to treating cancer patients.

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Doesn’t Ochsner have an affiliation agreement with MD Anderson giving you launching pad of service to see if they can treat it locally and refer you to their main campus if necessary.

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I know they have some sort of affiliation but do not know the details or process of how its handled. Yes I have seen the sign and that is good news. If its an immediate diagnosis/response/plan/etc. it would be a great system. It may be more complicated though.

To simplify, if I owned a small business which I am trying to grow, and someone came in with a need that would be hard for me to provide, in which I want to sure as hell try because I want to grow and succeed, would I immediately say go to a competitor I know well because they are great/better at it and will likely solve your issue, or am I going to say yes we can do it and try to figure out a way to do it? I need to eat too. My business won't survive if all I do is tell potential customers they will get better services and equipment somewhere else, and that's why a cancer patient/family needs to have skepticism when the oncologist says we can treat it here.