DeGroat: What do you find to be most beneficial about being a certified physician with MD Anderson Cancer Network?
Steinmetz: When I have a patient that has a difficult situation with their care? I knew that I can have a peer to peer review and be reassured that the treatment I have planned for the patient is the correct one.
DeGroat: And patients are very anxious when it comes to a cancer diagnosis, and for them to be able to get that information so quickly is important.
Steinmetz: They are monitoring the quality of our program in our care. And so you can be you can be satisfied that the plan is not just coming perhaps from me and from national guidelines, but that they also will weigh in and and
and ensure that what is being done is correct.
DeGroat: And typically, it's patients that are more that has a different diagnosis, a more complicated case. Nothing that it's it's not something that's straightforward. And then you're getting the reassurance by having the experts
weigh in. And I typically tell my patients that this is a top hospital cancer hospital in the country.
Steinmetz: And I think for me, patients with rare diagnoses or something that maybe I don't see very often, and perhaps there's even national guidelines out there for it in their situations, the patient will know that their diagnosis
perhaps is is rare.
Steinmetz: And so I can reassure them that I'm going to call these experts and discuss what I have planned for the patient and see if they would make any modifications. And regarding chart reviews from radiation oncologist perspective,
M.D. Anderson continually reviews our radiation plans and critiques them to make sure that the actual plan on the patient is is satisfactory.
DeGroat: Right, yeah. To be a certified physician, you have to submit so many cases per quarter per year to make sure that you are following all the national treatment guidelines.
Steinmetz: Right. Our certified membership with MD Anderson Cancer Network brings prestige to Premiere Health.
DeGroat: You know, ultimately, it's all about providing the best patient care that we can possibly provide. And this is just another tool that we have available to us.
