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Völva's avatar

“We are taught that physicians are caring professionals who look after our best interests.” Really? Maybe MDs are taught, or believe, that this is how they are seen. Patients often have a very different experience. Arrogant physicians who vastly overestimate their own knowledge base, speak down to patients more intelligent than themselves coupled with systems of auxiliary staff that seldom act in a caring way, is a better description of what many patients experience. The only terminations I’ve ever heard of are families being ousted from practices for refusing vaccinations. How that falls into any of the categories listed as reasonable causes is beyond me.

Medicine, especially is the US, is a profession that mostly draws people in search of prestige and a good income, not individuals with especially caring personalities wishing to do good. The result is as one would expect.

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Mary Ann's avatar

At a time when physicians are not seeing patients, but instead carrying out appts over the phone in the UK, I would like to cancel my relationship with our gp group. But where would I be? Without a doctor. Over the past three years I have stayed far away from our gps whose mission in life was to push a dangerous experimental biological on their patients. why would I EVER trust a doctor again. I have even made alternative arrangements for medication I may need to AVOID speaking to a doctor. I have not heard of one doctor apologising to their patients for their absence these past three years. So, Adam, I find it rich to read this article about how a doctor should correctly refuse to see a certain patient any longer. I have come across some extremely unpleasant reception staff in doctors offices in the USA. Our surgery’s reception here in the UK have been kind and helpful. Never saw a doctor for the past three years, so can’t comment on their behaviour.

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