Cancer doctors and the system

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While I appreciate the fact that doctors have gone through years of hell to get to where they are now. Eight years just to become a GP, more if they want to specialize. It's a long hard slug through the cesspools of other people's whining about colds and sniffles... But it helps to pay the bills. My wife has endured two surgeries so far this year because of thyroid cancer. Which she has had removed. But while they did remove the lymph nodes immediately next to the thyroid, they have a lymph node laterally that they want to biopsy BEFORE she can finish her Radioactive Iodine Treatment which is the final stage with thyroid cancer. The thing is, this will require her to travel again 600 miles, book hotels or lodging, hospital has to be coordinated, and she has her earnings from work interrupted AGAIN. She got a call early from the cancer clinic doctor and told she has to have it sooner than she had it booked, but when she called the number of the ultrasound department, she had her ass chewed out because the tech was with a client. WELL SOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYY! Pardon her for doing as the doctor ordered. Do they not know how hard this is on patients? Can't they guess? How about the families of the cancer patients? My wife is angry. Really angry. She doesn't want to die, and I am confident she won't, but the diagnosis of the[b][/b][i][/i][u][/u] BIG C is devastating to people. Show some consideration people. We don't all have gobs of time and money to just prance all over hell's half acre at someone's beck and call.