• Doctors don’t have an open mind. Their refrain is, “We are professionals. We know better.” They forget that laymen patients can reveal something because they are the ones experiencing the symptoms.
No, I think it is better to let the doctors the diagnosis disease. The patients will most probably make mistake as little learning is a dangerous thing in the context of diagnosis.
Plus, many disease have similar symptoms, like there are 60 reasons for chest pain, so most probability you will think that you have heart disease when your chest pains. Thus need specialization in "Differential Diagnosis" by experts only.
• I think it is because medicos aren’t trained to deal with certain situations. When they were studying medical, they weren’t instructed on what to do if they come across anything unique/strange/unfamiliar. They see everything through the prism of known diseases. The culture of out-of-the-box thinking is not there. They simply dismiss the patient by citing some universal condition. I suspect that doctors suffer from ‘frog in the well’ syndrome. Just as frogs cannot imagine a world beyond it’s well, doctors are discouraged from thinking anything outside the realm of documented diseases.
No problem actually. As medical science is old and modern enough, the doctors can firstly think on the basis of what they know already first. Then if that does not work, then they can think out of the box. If you start thinking out of the box from the beginning, then you may miss the most simple and common things needed to diagnosis disease.
There are some ‘universal diseases’ which doctors use to wash their hands off patients. The symptoms of these universal diseases are present in everyone to some degree. So it is hard to argue with doctors. For instance, if anyone is unemployed and poor or suffers from cancer, obviously he would be worried and/or sad and obsessed about his problems. Would it be proper for medical professionals to declare it as anxiety or depression or OCD? The sufferer’s problem would be unemployment and poverty or cancer NOT anxiety/depression/OCD. One doctor actually uttered this line, “Looking at the TONE of your description, it seems it is anxiety/depression/OCD.”
You should not argue with the doctors without evidence and little knowledge of medical science. If you suspect the doctor is wrong, you can verify a point by multiple other doctors first and then may be you can argue with that doctor.
Hm, I think then he is not a good doctor if he thinks a cancer patients as a patient of anxiety or depression. As far I know, doctors ask about background and job and living conditions to consider all possibilities to diagnosis disease. The types of doctors you are talking about are not good doctor. The good doctors will consider about cancer tests if a patient claim and then the test results will say.
When you demand explanation for the symptoms not matching with diagnosed disease, doctors have endless number of excuses to brush aside the question. For example if the patient asks the doctor to check in his textbooks whether the exhibited symptoms and the symptoms of the diagnosed disease are same, the doctor replies, “Yes, in advanced stages of the disease, these symptoms appear,” although it is not true. It seems when doctors do MBBS, they are trained to churn out excuses. Some doctors even ridicule the demand for diagnosis i.e. leave alone correctness of the diagnosis, it would be big thing if they just reveal the diagnosis.
Hm they are not good doctor. But remember that "Differential Diagnosis" is a hard task and need years of experience, so cant blame the young doctors, but they need to be ready to admit that they can be wrong of course.
1. Once when I began to complain about memory damage, pat came the doctor’s reply, “Everybody’s caliber is not the same.”
Explanation: Memory damage can happen to Einstein-Newton as well as to a retard. Where does the question of caliber come in this?
hm...very bad @that doctor.
2. When I complain of doctors not reading the description of symptoms properly, I was actually told that it is because they don’t have time.
Explanation: My description takes barely 15 minutes to read. If doctors can’t spare 15 minutes to know symptoms, why are they in the profession of psychiatry then? It is their duty to spend time in properly reading the description.
Need to develop artificial doctors now. Then those arrogant doctors will be jobless and cry.
Another grouse I have about medical fraternity is their blind support for doctors. They don’t see the merits of the case. They support other doctors just because they are doctors.
Hm. they can support the doctors just because they are doctors, but they also should review what others are saying with proper attention.
so i reckoned diabetes messes with the blood vessels (atherosclerosis) and kidney causing hypertension... that could cause heart walls to overwork themselves and cause atrophy and eventual MI so i just blabber my half arsed answer and i see a confused look from my teacher and the students
but as we discuss more about what i said, she realizes that atherosclerosis would cause hypertension (my guess was right) which would cause pathology in the heart
so yea... i had no knowledge about it... but a simple thought process from the previous answers helped my answer my question
It is a known matter. But I am surprised that you thought about that based on guess which is correct! You must be good at guessing.
I am very timely man
and no being rude has no excuse. If you don't like your job or so much stress, then don't do it. Stop going after money
. FYI I had one of Bangladesh's famous doctor relative with great work ethics. So I know what can you do and what you can't.
