There is an incredible amount of arrogance in the medical profession these days. I was terminated by a doctor who had the audacity to write in an email as the reason: “the patient does not have confidence in my ability to treat him.” I never said I did not have confidence, I merely asked questions of him that required him to spend more t…
There is an incredible amount of arrogance in the medical profession these days. I was terminated by a doctor who had the audacity to write in an email as the reason: “the patient does not have confidence in my ability to treat him.” I never said I did not have confidence, I merely asked questions of him that required him to spend more than 30 seconds, and I reminded him that he was in fact earning money for that time, not doing me some kind of favor.
I’m really tired of doctors deciding they are not your doctor simply because it begins to require a little bit more effort than other patients. I have been tossed around from doctor to doctor for years on something that is destroying my quality of life, and I still haven’t really gotten any diagnosis due to my symptoms being “too complex”….
On another important note - I pay for this substack …. And it is one that argues for intelligent analysis of these topics. Is it too much to ask at this point that the writers do just ONE proofread to fix their blatant grammatical and spelling errors?!
The attitude and wording used can be quite exasperating. The patient "fails" a treatment, when the treatment is ineffective. The MD "gives" a patient a Rx, when s/he, for a fee, writes a prescription for an overpriced drug, etc...The "confidence" expected is blind allegiance without any inconvenient questions that risk revealing the practitioner's ignorance and lack of curiosity about root causes.
There is an incredible amount of arrogance in the medical profession these days. I was terminated by a doctor who had the audacity to write in an email as the reason: “the patient does not have confidence in my ability to treat him.” I never said I did not have confidence, I merely asked questions of him that required him to spend more than 30 seconds, and I reminded him that he was in fact earning money for that time, not doing me some kind of favor.
I’m really tired of doctors deciding they are not your doctor simply because it begins to require a little bit more effort than other patients. I have been tossed around from doctor to doctor for years on something that is destroying my quality of life, and I still haven’t really gotten any diagnosis due to my symptoms being “too complex”….
On another important note - I pay for this substack …. And it is one that argues for intelligent analysis of these topics. Is it too much to ask at this point that the writers do just ONE proofread to fix their blatant grammatical and spelling errors?!
The attitude and wording used can be quite exasperating. The patient "fails" a treatment, when the treatment is ineffective. The MD "gives" a patient a Rx, when s/he, for a fee, writes a prescription for an overpriced drug, etc...The "confidence" expected is blind allegiance without any inconvenient questions that risk revealing the practitioner's ignorance and lack of curiosity about root causes.