Re: Doctors - do you trust them?
Re: Doctors - do you trust them?
Re: Doctors - do you trust them?
I think there is a cultural shift in attitudes towards the medical profession. As far as I can tell they're no longer viewed as magical demigods - patients are quite rightly far more investigative, challenging and critical.Re: Doctors - do you trust them?
I agree with Gumbud. I have had good and very bad experiences of being treated. I tend to adopt a "wait and see" approach to anything wrong with me these days - usually it goes away, or, if it doesn't, isn't life threatening. If I contracted a serious illness I would not accept the treatment without question. For instance, if I was told I had fairly advanced cancer I might not go for chemo, depending what the prognosis was.Re: Doctors - do you trust them?
I'll tell you what I DO have a problem with as far as the medical field goes... and that's over-diagnosis. I see folks in their 60's or 70's going in for treatment of one thing, and the next thing you know they discover some totally unrelated thing... due to the advancements in diagnostic testing. They find something that would most likely have gone unnoticed for as long as the patient is alive.. like a small slow growing cancer, and the patient would probably die of something else long before that killed them.. However, they are compelled to treat it and the treatment ends up making that persons life living hell, or ends up killing themRe: Doctors - do you trust them?
I do trust my GP but not particularly the hospital doctors,Re: Doctors - do you trust them?
That is scary - I don't have AF but sometimes get palpitations, which I know is not the same thing but they can be scary when woken up in the early hours. It would have been nice to have the doctors treat you with sensitivity.Re: Doctors - do you trust them?
AudreyII - I couldn't agree more. Pity there's no "like" facility on here!Re: Doctors - do you trust them?
Re: Doctors - do you trust them?
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