Dr. Branden Hsu is a coward. I came to him from the VA who has abused and neglected my medical care prior. At first, he sounded like a decent doctor. He had concerns that the cancer a previous doctor thought I had was not what it was and asked for further testing. After further testing had determined I had a more rare and difficult cancer than what they had thought, I was told by Dr. Hsu that he would be able to treat me and that I needed to go to the VA which I have issues with from previous VA abuse that were none of his concern. Every time we discussed this though, he kept talking about how he knows the doctors personally at the VA and kept advising not that I go to a cancer treatment center, but specifically he would always say I needed to go to the VA; it was odd.
With the abuse from the VA having triggered my PTSD issues including a recent stint where I had a surgery that left an open wound that I was under a doctor and nightly nurse's care for, the consult had abruptly ended due to time, and the VA simply had to renew the consult. I was left with an open wound and no care at all from a doctor or nurse for FIVE MONTHS before the VA finally fixed their consult problem. Likewise, when I came to Dr. Hsu via Community Care, I told him that I had waited for the oncologist at the VA to sign off on my consult which took me nearly two months to see a doctor for cancer. Again, these are none of Dr. Hsu's concerns.
At this time I made plans to go to a cancer treatment center since Dr. Hsu told me he could not treat me. One of the things I was asked for was documentation from Dr. Hsu telling me he could no longer treat me, so I asked for it. During this conversation when he asked why I needed it, I stated "to get into a cancer treatment center" since he was unable to treat my cancer and the VA was no longer an option. In some weird other world, Dr. Hsu decided I said I wanted to get into a specific cancer treatment called "Cancer Treatment Center in Oklahoma" a place of which I have never heard. After a few awkward moments, I told Dr. Hsu I had no idea there was such a place and my intentions was not to go anywhere near Oklahoma, I simply need to get into A cancer treatment center. It is a generic phrase, not a specific location.
After I again asked Dr. Hsu to simply put into writing that he said he could not treat me, out of nowhere he asked that I come into his office. I didn't understand the need for that, but I complied. Once I got there, again, I felt like I was speaking another language. He interrupted telling me "well first you told me you were trying to get into Cancer Treatment Center in Oklahoma". I as completely dumfounded. This is a grown man and a doctor. How in the world is he stuck on this place in Oklahoma that HE mentioned? We literally had an argument over this when I told him that HE mentioned the place and that I was aghast that he doesn't, as an oncologist, recognize "a cancer treatment center" as a generic phrase, not a specific location.
Then he straight up called me a liar when I told him I have in fact talked to an oncologist at MD Anderson who lead me to their website where they discuss treatments for my type of cancer. This seemed very simple to me. If Dr. Hsu was not going to treat me at all, put that in writing so that I may then approach the VA to send me to a cancer treatment center. Dr. Hsu reiterated again very unprofessionally that the specific doctor (oncologist) at the VA was a "great doctor" and my reply was simple: if she was so great, why did she allow a patient to go nearly two months without a doctor through Community Care because of her issues with a psychological explanation for why a veteran RATES COMMUNITY CARE? She cost me nearly two months of medical care alone for my cancer.
At this point Dr. Hsu is now arguing with me that MD Anderson doesn't have treatments and I was the one who mentioned some obscure place in Oklahoma. It was bizarre. If you can not treat a patient, why can't you put that into writing? Guess what he sent me instead? He sent me a form saying he is now refusing to treat me due to my "verbal confrontation and conduct toward me during our visit" a visit HE made happen that was not necessary and confrontation that HE caused. I will be contacting my attorney for defamation. His suggestion btw for my cancer was to "watch it" which according to MD Anderson is reserved for elderly patients too weak to undergo any type of treatments. This doctor is a coward.
https://www.mdanderson.org/patients-family/diagnosis-treatment/cancer-types/carcinoid-tumors/carcinoid-tumor-treatment.html#:~:text=At%20MD%20Anderson%2C%20your%20treatment,before%20and%20during%20your%20therapy.
Again, if you are not going to treat a patient, put it in writing so that the patient may go to someone who can. Don't be a coward and do this. read more