i so appreciated your calm humble approach. my experiences with doctors (and i've had shockingly few for a 70 year old) tell me that they are raging egomaniacs with god complexes who think everything they do is right until they have to walk it back.
my mother had an AVM when i was 6. by the time i was 9, we had moved to a new town with a new doctor who certainly knew her history. when she called him, feeling that she was having another episode, he brushed her off. she called her old doctor who said he would meet her at the hospital. she called for an ambulance and left the front door unlocked, telling them that she might be in a coma when they arrived. she saved her own life.
in 1976, my cousin's wife spent a year in wheelchair with GBS after taking the rushed and hyped swine flu vaccine. you can imagine how i felt about the relentless pressure to take this latest rushed and hyped jab.
at almost 70, i've never had a mammogram or a colonoscopy. i exercise, eat home made organic food and stay as far away from conventional medicine as i am able. i go only to integrative doctors who don't take insurance and act as collaborators with me instead of a god like figure telling me what to do. of course, i'm on medicare but pay my doctors out of pocket.
when i have to see a conventional doctor like after i was hit by a car, i make sure i can quote all the studies and use all the same big words that they use. they are always put off, thinking "hey, i incurred a lot of debt to get the exclusive right to use those words!"
if a doctor has the slightest tinge of ego, i walk.
i submit, sir, that you are a rare exception and should be cloned immediately and often!
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This was such a refreshing new list to ponder or a list to review again. I am not a doctor but I can relate to all of those notable points. One point I believe nurses should consider is trusting themselves. We did NOT attend medical school nor did we serve a residency, but that doesn't mean our knowledge both academic and experiential is wrong. It has taken me years to build up enough confidence to believe in myself and then challenge a doctor's interpretation with all due respect. Sometimes I'm right (which reminds me to not be cocky the next time) and sometimes I'm wrong. I am grateful for all of the doctors over the years who have pointed out the flaws in my thinking and taught me why I was wrong and why he was right. It takes a village.
I love this, Thank you.
i so appreciated your calm humble approach. my experiences with doctors (and i've had shockingly few for a 70 year old) tell me that they are raging egomaniacs with god complexes who think everything they do is right until they have to walk it back.
my mother had an AVM when i was 6. by the time i was 9, we had moved to a new town with a new doctor who certainly knew her history. when she called him, feeling that she was having another episode, he brushed her off. she called her old doctor who said he would meet her at the hospital. she called for an ambulance and left the front door unlocked, telling them that she might be in a coma when they arrived. she saved her own life.
in 1976, my cousin's wife spent a year in wheelchair with GBS after taking the rushed and hyped swine flu vaccine. you can imagine how i felt about the relentless pressure to take this latest rushed and hyped jab.
at almost 70, i've never had a mammogram or a colonoscopy. i exercise, eat home made organic food and stay as far away from conventional medicine as i am able. i go only to integrative doctors who don't take insurance and act as collaborators with me instead of a god like figure telling me what to do. of course, i'm on medicare but pay my doctors out of pocket.
when i have to see a conventional doctor like after i was hit by a car, i make sure i can quote all the studies and use all the same big words that they use. they are always put off, thinking "hey, i incurred a lot of debt to get the exclusive right to use those words!"
if a doctor has the slightest tinge of ego, i walk.
i submit, sir, that you are a rare exception and should be cloned immediately and often!
Thank you for this
Please, for those of us without unlimited time, post an autotranscription when you have audio/video content. Otherwise, you lose many/most of your visual-learner subscribers. Autotranscribers are cheap/free. They are imperfect, but plenty good enough. Most sites have started doing this, thank goodness. And many thanks. (Unless this is just a repeat of the audio from your other article from today? Confused, perhaps. But tell us if so, please.
This was such a refreshing new list to ponder or a list to review again. I am not a doctor but I can relate to all of those notable points. One point I believe nurses should consider is trusting themselves. We did NOT attend medical school nor did we serve a residency, but that doesn't mean our knowledge both academic and experiential is wrong. It has taken me years to build up enough confidence to believe in myself and then challenge a doctor's interpretation with all due respect. Sometimes I'm right (which reminds me to not be cocky the next time) and sometimes I'm wrong. I am grateful for all of the doctors over the years who have pointed out the flaws in my thinking and taught me why I was wrong and why he was right. It takes a village.
Very interesting to hear these perspectives from Dr's point of view.