The Physician that Diagnosed/Treated Me

I was diagnosed and treated for NHL by a Muskegon, MI physician named Dr. Marjorie Mooney-Jacoby in 1995. Dr. Mooney is not however an oncologist but an internal medicine specialist. After being treated by her, referred to other physicians by her and then continuing to see her for the next four years while I attended college, there were several occasions I requested copies of my cancer files but to no avail. In 1999, and after making several written pleas to her office about my cancer records, I finally was told by her long time nurse that she didn't have my files. I was infuriated. Why would a physician purposely not keep my records, especially since I had one of the best health insurances that money could buy at the time through my step-father's job as a school teacher? Perhaps there was wrong doing on her part, I began to think. In the meantime, I had graduated from college in 1998 and lost my insurance coverage until the end of that year. And because Dr. Mooney didn't "want to deal with me anymore" as her patient when I admitted to her that I began to smoke cigarettes again due to the stress from college, trying to find a job, etc., I had to find another physician to see in 1999. Was it coincidence that my great insurance coverage had just ended? Well, only more questions would arise as she opted to give myself and the other physicians I saw after her only one answer, which was "we do not have any of these files". In the meantime, I began to feel as though I were having a recurrence but none of the physicians I saw, including Dr. Mooney seemed to care.