The reality is that when I am severely unwell, as in severe pain, then I need a Dr who knows my agenda and will make decisions for me based on my agenda... Reality is that in that scenario I'm not going to get my family dr who can do that, but the time poor ED clinician who couldn't give a stuff... Not a life and death decision, but the …
The reality is that when I am severely unwell, as in severe pain, then I need a Dr who knows my agenda and will make decisions for me based on my agenda... Reality is that in that scenario I'm not going to get my family dr who can do that, but the time poor ED clinician who couldn't give a stuff... Not a life and death decision, but the only time I've taken the worst migraine of my life to ED, the Dr did blood tests on me without my knowledge or consent (I thought all they were doing was inserting an IV prior to treatment)... And totally unnecessary, you can't diagnose a migraine or exclude a sub-arachnoid (not that it had any red flags beyond worst headache of my life) with a blood test... My family dr knows I'm fussy about informed consent and prefer minimal/no investigations, but some random in ED, who in reality is the person I'm going to get when I'm acutely unwell, is of dubious quality and as I found out, sub-par
The reality is that when I am severely unwell, as in severe pain, then I need a Dr who knows my agenda and will make decisions for me based on my agenda... Reality is that in that scenario I'm not going to get my family dr who can do that, but the time poor ED clinician who couldn't give a stuff... Not a life and death decision, but the only time I've taken the worst migraine of my life to ED, the Dr did blood tests on me without my knowledge or consent (I thought all they were doing was inserting an IV prior to treatment)... And totally unnecessary, you can't diagnose a migraine or exclude a sub-arachnoid (not that it had any red flags beyond worst headache of my life) with a blood test... My family dr knows I'm fussy about informed consent and prefer minimal/no investigations, but some random in ED, who in reality is the person I'm going to get when I'm acutely unwell, is of dubious quality and as I found out, sub-par