Great Quote - The Sign of a Good Doctor
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palides2021
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@win231, Interesting you would say that.
I agree with most of what you said, although it's hard to find such a doctor in real life. Doctors are trained to treat patients with medications, and pharmaceutical companies send their reps to their medical offices all the time to share their new drugs with them. They are like a hand and glove, very tight. That's who patients are competing against.
An uninformed patient is half the problem. I always challenge my doctor when he tries to prescribe something for me, telling him about all the side effects of that drug (I used to work in a job where we noted all the side effects of chemo drugs in clinical trials). He has to convince me the benefits are greater than the side effects. Granted, certain medications have helped millions, and I see it with older family members. I try and keep an open mind, but it's harder as I age and my body has it's own mind.
I agree with most of what you said, although it's hard to find such a doctor in real life. Doctors are trained to treat patients with medications, and pharmaceutical companies send their reps to their medical offices all the time to share their new drugs with them. They are like a hand and glove, very tight. That's who patients are competing against.
An uninformed patient is half the problem. I always challenge my doctor when he tries to prescribe something for me, telling him about all the side effects of that drug (I used to work in a job where we noted all the side effects of chemo drugs in clinical trials). He has to convince me the benefits are greater than the side effects. Granted, certain medications have helped millions, and I see it with older family members. I try and keep an open mind, but it's harder as I age and my body has it's own mind.
feywon
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i do much the same when they want to prescribe and i'm not above changing providers, have had a few over the decades that liked that i was willing to take the longer but less risky route. One of the side effects things that most bothers me is 'brain fog' in a broad range of things commonly prescribed to older people and then they want us to think it's natural to lose brain function with age? And the number of drugs, some meant to be mental health RXs that can actual cause suicidal ideation, unacceptable.@win231, Interesting you would say that.
I agree with most of what you said, although it's hard to find such a doctor in real life. Doctors are trained to treat patients with medications, and pharmaceutical companies send their reps to their medical offices all the time to share their new drugs with them. They are like a hand and glove, very tight. That's who patients are competing against.
An uninformed patient is half the problem. I always challenge my doctor when he tries to prescribe something for me, telling him about all the side effects of that drug (I used to work in a job where we noted all the side effects of chemo drugs in clinical trials). He has to convince me the benefits are greater than the side effects. Granted, certain medications have helped millions, and I see it with older family members. I try and keep an open mind, but it's harder as I age and my body has it's own mind.
It is not just that people are uninformed, it is also that many people don't want to invest the time improving their health thru nutritional and lifestyle changes. Somewhere around the middle of the last century while demonizing Marijuana and hallucinogens mainstream middle-class people in the developed world became addicted to easy fixes, quick solutions for damn near everything. (Now many of them complain about young folks and their hand held devices as if they would not have gotten just as addicted to them were they available back then, and is if some of them aren't almost as hooked as the kids.)
Regarding pills Jagger and Richards nailed it with 'Mother's Little Helper'. And shoot i'm going to post it, that'll teach people to get me started looking up relevant music.
I wish we had a method to find good doctors. I watched a YouTube once of an interview with a British doctor and he said they got more pay when they could get more patients to improve their outcomes. I thought, well, that sounds like the way it should work, I think in USA doctors get paid according to how many and how fast they have appointments with patients, regardless of whether they do the patient any good at all.
I've had a couple good doctors but so many more that are useless or worse than useless. I hate to think what my life would be like if it weren't for the ability to find helpful medical information myself through the internet.