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#13801 - 03/06/04 12:27 AM
Re: doctors who prescribe
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Registered: 01/04/04
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Loc: Minnesota
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I'm sorry to hear about the painful experience you went through with your mother. It's hard not to blame yourself after the fact for not being more proactive. But like you said, you trust the doctor knows what they're doing. I'm still kicking myself for all the suffering my mom has gone through because of bad doctoring.
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#13802 - 03/06/04 03:56 AM
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Registered: 06/26/03
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Loc: pennsylvania
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Bad doctoring scares the bijeeezus out of me. We are so immersed in heavy duty doctors now that a certain amount of trust must be required or get your own medical degree that it is scary.
I try to use instincets or intuition to ell me where to place my trust. That does not mean that I don't spend days holding back the tears because I got information that I don't know whether is true or not.
Our internist, whom we trust and trun to frequently, told us that he thought John's cancer was benign (prior to surgery) and that we should just go on living. Instinct told us to just keep looking for info. and the internist put us in touch with the premiere pancreatic surgeon in the world. So he did help but his initial advice would have killed John by now. Scary thought.
Faith is what I am running on. When humans fail you that is all you have anyway huh?
Lynn
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#13803 - 03/08/04 03:57 PM
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Registered: 12/11/03
Posts: 504
Loc: Pennsylvania
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So sorry to hear what happened to your mother. You are so right when you say that doctors are too quick to hand out medicene.
Also, sometimes doctors are insensitive and callous when conversing with a patient. I'm going to a Dr. now and the last time I went to him I was in awful shape with a cold/bronchitus virus. He was abrupt, didn't wish me well when I left and I exited his office thinking...He doesn't care about my health at all! He seemed much more concerned about my insurance than me.
Anyone had this experience?
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#13805 - 03/14/04 09:07 AM
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Registered: 10/15/03
Posts: 446
Loc: California
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I'm so sorry Dots...
I know before my husbands two back surgeries almost 10 years ago, the doctors gave him open-ended prescriptions for pain medication for almost two years before they would finally accept that there was something actually wrong with him. I feel justified in thinking that they are partially to blame for all the drug problems now. (Only partially though.)
My personal opinion is that all the pills mask what might otherwise be corrected by proper diet, exercise and proper monitoring the way we live our lives. I'm not saying that all doctors are bad, I just think that sometimes, really, n a lot of instances they don't really 'know' us, they only know what little we might tell them, or get across to them... and then they have to make some informed decision based on what we've told them in the brief time we get with them. How can they possibly make a really informed diagnosis?
I think what someone said was right - go back, get another opinion/s, and go back, until your gut feeling is satisfied that you're on the right path.
Kate
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#13807 - 04/05/04 07:10 AM
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Registered: 04/08/03
Posts: 267
Loc: Florida
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I'm sorry to hear about your mom's experience, Dotsie, but unfortunately I feel this is becoming all too frequent. Doctors now seem, to me anyway, nothing more than glorified mechanics. It is rare to find one who actually sits down to listen and who takes a holistic, healing approach to medicine. Most of them are just in it to make as many bucks as they can. It is possible to find good doctors still but they are very, very rare anymore. Just another symptom of the general breakdown of our society and the moving away from the earth and all that sustains us naturally.
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#13808 - 04/05/04 02:37 AM
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Registered: 01/01/04
Posts: 678
Loc: Tazewell County, VA, USA
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There is NO way I can be rational on this subject! Is it doctors or is it the insurance companies?
A friend had her uterus removed last Tuesday because she had bleeding tumors. This had been going on for *months*. I told her before Thanksgiving to have the tumors removed but her doctor - who was my doctor for exactly 1 visit! - told her she *had* to have a hysterectomy. Why? Because she didn't have insurance and he didn't want to be bothered with having her 'possibly' have to have the tumors removed again in a few years!!!
So this young woman - mid 30's - is in agony trying to recover from this extremely invasive surgery. And that's just the latest case. Most of us know people who have been misdiagnosed, etc.
GRRRRRRRR! I get SO angry at the medical and insurance system.
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