Very interesting. I think observation and diagnosis lacks in so many doctors today. My dad was a great diagnostician he is long gone but was a urologist and surgeon. I remember talk at the fing table about patients of his. As an adult I’ve been subjected to as wide range of doctors in general practice or internist I’ve had two good one…
Very interesting. I think observation and diagnosis lacks in so many doctors today. My dad was a great diagnostician he is long gone but was a urologist and surgeon. I remember talk at the fing table about patients of his. As an adult I’ve been subjected to as wide range of doctors in general practice or internist I’ve had two good ones. My current doctor however just dumped me or I chose not to pay her concierge $$ as I’m very healthy and have limited retirement income. Now I’m on the search for one like you with acute observation skills and can diagnose properly! Good for grandmother teaching u these skills. Oh that more had grandmother’s like yours.
Thank you for mentioning the word diagnostician. Two of my favorite shows are HOUSE and Doc Martin!
we should all be so lucky to have brilliant diagnosticians like them although the bedside manner could stand a little improvement lol
I have been chronically ill for a long long time; decades, and now much worse. No doctor I ever go to in the Western medical system has ever been able to touch it and they seem annoyed because I do have a long list of symptoms and they won't even listen to all of them in my " physical" in which they nevwr examine me. They just stare at the computer screen and cut me off saying, "it's too much.. you'll have to talk about that when you're on your next visit" when it's all part of the same condition.
I just wish that a doctor (and this wasn't even a doctor; it was a nurse practitioner. Good luck even getting access to a doctor nowadays at least in the health system I'm a part of). but I sing the praises of a good nurse practitioner or a physician's assistant! In my experience they have been far superior to the doctors I have seen over the last 10 years.
But still, I never feel heard. I never feel that anyone is really interested in how I feel when I go to these PCP offices.
They're not listening and they're not LOOKING.
I might as well be talking to robots!
All they know how to do is order blood tests and x-rays etc but you practically have to be dying to get a referral to a specialist and then they make you jump through all kinds of hoops before they let you. it's all about insurance insurance insurance.
I feel like I have to sell my PCP on the fact that I'm sick!. they put a lot of pressure on me and I feel very stressed. As a matter fact my blood pressure shoots through the roof the second I walk into a medical building because my anxiety kicks in automatically. I always tell them to take my blood pressure at the end of the visit and they do and it's always normal but at the beginning of the visit it tends to be high because of the anxiety i feel laying myself open to an inhumane, discompassionate system that really doesn't care about me.
I just started with a new one last week and she was definitely better. She spent a longer time with me (you know over the 10 minutes they allot you normally) lol but no physical exam.
I don't even know what she looks like because of the huge mask she was wearing. Sigh…
I'm obligated to point out that most difficult diagnostic challenges are not solved by a single, brilliant if troubled diagnostician, but by working with a competent team, and knowing when your knowledge isn't sufficient to answer all the questions. House isn't real life.
Very interesting. I think observation and diagnosis lacks in so many doctors today. My dad was a great diagnostician he is long gone but was a urologist and surgeon. I remember talk at the fing table about patients of his. As an adult I’ve been subjected to as wide range of doctors in general practice or internist I’ve had two good ones. My current doctor however just dumped me or I chose not to pay her concierge $$ as I’m very healthy and have limited retirement income. Now I’m on the search for one like you with acute observation skills and can diagnose properly! Good for grandmother teaching u these skills. Oh that more had grandmother’s like yours.
Thank you for mentioning the word diagnostician. Two of my favorite shows are HOUSE and Doc Martin!
we should all be so lucky to have brilliant diagnosticians like them although the bedside manner could stand a little improvement lol
I have been chronically ill for a long long time; decades, and now much worse. No doctor I ever go to in the Western medical system has ever been able to touch it and they seem annoyed because I do have a long list of symptoms and they won't even listen to all of them in my " physical" in which they nevwr examine me. They just stare at the computer screen and cut me off saying, "it's too much.. you'll have to talk about that when you're on your next visit" when it's all part of the same condition.
I just wish that a doctor (and this wasn't even a doctor; it was a nurse practitioner. Good luck even getting access to a doctor nowadays at least in the health system I'm a part of). but I sing the praises of a good nurse practitioner or a physician's assistant! In my experience they have been far superior to the doctors I have seen over the last 10 years.
But still, I never feel heard. I never feel that anyone is really interested in how I feel when I go to these PCP offices.
They're not listening and they're not LOOKING.
I might as well be talking to robots!
All they know how to do is order blood tests and x-rays etc but you practically have to be dying to get a referral to a specialist and then they make you jump through all kinds of hoops before they let you. it's all about insurance insurance insurance.
I feel like I have to sell my PCP on the fact that I'm sick!. they put a lot of pressure on me and I feel very stressed. As a matter fact my blood pressure shoots through the roof the second I walk into a medical building because my anxiety kicks in automatically. I always tell them to take my blood pressure at the end of the visit and they do and it's always normal but at the beginning of the visit it tends to be high because of the anxiety i feel laying myself open to an inhumane, discompassionate system that really doesn't care about me.
I just started with a new one last week and she was definitely better. She spent a longer time with me (you know over the 10 minutes they allot you normally) lol but no physical exam.
I don't even know what she looks like because of the huge mask she was wearing. Sigh…
I'm obligated to point out that most difficult diagnostic challenges are not solved by a single, brilliant if troubled diagnostician, but by working with a competent team, and knowing when your knowledge isn't sufficient to answer all the questions. House isn't real life.
You are exactly right. And love how they tell too much next visit. Next patient pls!!! Oh brother. A sad state of our healthcare
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