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What to Do After a Cancer Diagnosis · CareTalk: Healthcare. Unfiltered.

• 0:06
  John: For the average person who doesn't necessarily, doesn't no background in healthcare, why is, what's the responsibility of the patient, the patient family, once you get a cancer diagnosis, and how do you, how do you execute on that?
• 0:20
  Dr. Sanjay: Yeah, I mean it's, it's an unfortunate reality, but a real one, and that's that there is.
• 0:27
  Dr. Sanjay: A disparity, or at least it is not congruent, the kind of care or quote unquote elite or guideline, you know, top, top level care, uh, is not distributed equally from, you know, throughout the United States.
• 0:41
  Dr. Sanjay: And I don't, I do not believe in my heart, you know, heart that it's with intention.
• 0:45
  Dr. Sanjay: It's just more of a resource issue and a labor issue.
• 0:48
  Dr. Sanjay: We know there's a severe deficiency of oncologists, of, of healthcare staff.
• 0:52
  Dr. Sanjay: You hear about it all the time and.
• 0:54
  Dr. Sanjay: There's an overextension of taking care of patients because of how common cancer is becoming, as you had mentioned at the beginning of this podcast.
• 1:03
  Dr. Sanjay: So what that means is.
• 1:06
  Dr. Sanjay: All of this, this, you know, amazing scientific discovery we're, we're learning.
• 1:11
  Dr. Sanjay: And the guideline updates, and the therapy updates.
• 1:13
  Dr. Sanjay: And the diagnostic updates and all of this, all this stuff that's coming out quickly and multiple tumor types.
• 1:19
  Dr. Sanjay: I wanted to reach the same places that I grew up, which is, and still live today, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 1:25
  Dr. Sanjay: Right?
• 1:25
  Dr. Sanjay: And I'm a person of color, but we know that, that certain demographics, depending on where they live, the color of their skin, don't get the same.
• 1:34
  Dr. Sanjay: Uh, care either to the time of diagnosis
• 1:37
  John: reliably, don't get that access to care.
• 1:41
  Dr. Sanjay: Correct?
• 1:41
  Dr. Sanjay: Correct.
• 1:42
  Dr. Sanjay: And I think, I think the only solution until someone, you know, proposes one is like, well, then let's make it collaborative and co informed so that we can, I, again, I don't think it's, it's malice on anyone's part to not deliver that.
• 1:54
  Dr. Sanjay: I just, there are gaps that exist.
• 1:56
  Dr. Sanjay: That's a fact.
• 1:57
  Dr. Sanjay: So I am kind of obsessed with this concept of.
• 2:00
  Dr. Sanjay: Why not participate?
• 2:02
  Dr. Sanjay: Like if you have the time and it's your family member, uh, or yourself, you know, there, the accessibility to information is, is easier and more seamless than ever, especially with these frontier large language models like, you know, chat, pt, et cetera, which.
• 2:16
  Dr. Sanjay: Take their own caution, don't get me wrong.
• 2:19
  Dr. Sanjay: But information is accessible.
• 2:20
  Dr. Sanjay: So I think it's a bandaid of a solution until hopefully technology, uh, and the system can find a way to distribute the most elite kind of care that you would otherwise have to travel for or be fortunate to live in the area, uh, to anyone that has a cancer diagnosis.
• 2:37
  Dr. Sanjay: 'cause it's just not going anywhere.