My patient has breast cancer. I’m her doctor. I’m in network with her insurance. She wants me to perform her surgery. And yet, after denying our request for me to operate at the facility where I believe she can receive the safest care, @redbudsurgerycenter, her insurance company contacted her and directed her to another doctor. A patient navigating cancer already has enough decisions to make. She should not have to defend her choice of physician because of a disagreement over where that physician operates. Trying to tell a doctor where they can operate is invasive enough. But telling a patient with cancer that she should see a different surgeon, when she has already chosen the doctor she trusts to care for her? That has gone way too far.