Doctors, health, medicine, healthcare, vets
It truly is amazing that we live in a modern industrialized digital world with so many advances in medical research, technology, communication, economics, and science, yet there are cases where physicians still can’t diagnose certain physical conditions, second or third opinions vary, and some diagnoses are just flat out wrong. I’m not talking about new or rare diseases, either.
Perhaps one of the most frustrating things occur when one physician pitches taking numerous tests, which even with medical insurance, are many times costly, and still doesn’t know what going on. The anger begins to mount when you see another physician who tells you something entirely different. The biggest joke occurs when the 2nd physician just skims or ignores you or your loved ones patient file since he or she is in a rush.
Alas, it truly is the nature of being a living thing- disease and poor health have always existed and always will. I think the MEDIA and Hollywood have created an idealistic image of the capabilities and intelligence of physicians. The physicians create and support that image themselves, as well. In many ways, they are like attorneys-at-law promoting their law firms or politicians campaigning for election. Medicine is truly an inexact science, no what what we hear and read about.
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It’s true. It’s true.
What’s worse, hospitals in places like South Florida feel like factories — designed for profit, and not patient care.
I blame the administrators of these facilities, who train and encourage these doctors to appear for five seconds in a patient’s room, nod their heads as if they’re listening, and then share an opinion they’d already thought of prior to entering the room.
As a patient, you have to take control of the situation. You do this by:
- complaining about the service to the charge nurse or nurse manager
- threatening to leave
- expressing your feelings when the almighty Doctor finally arrives — remember, he’s an Overlord, not the Overmind. In other words, he’s an intelligent pawn of the administrators.
- Document your questions, so you keep track of everything. When doctors don’t know the diagnosis, the possibilities are endless.
- Google every possibility, so that you are aware and empowered.