Do you second guess your doctor?!
Question: I have learned from bitter experience never to accept a doctor's diagnosis or treatment recommendation without personally verifying it. Never.
"Trust, but verify."
Answers: I have learned from bitter experience never to accept a doctor's diagnosis or treatment recommendation without personally verifying it. Never.
"Trust, but verify."
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to vent. The answer is yes. The reasons being:
1- Many doctors are businessmen first, doctors second.
2- Statistically, we have between 1/4-1/2 million medical induced deaths, including unnecessary surgery, medication errors, hospital errors (infection etc), negative effects of drugs....
3- There are different schools of thoughts when it comes to certain illnesses, such as mental. The same symptom can fit under multiple theories, so depending on the doctor's bias and focus of study, the patient can be diagnosed differently and given different treatments.
4- It took me two years to win my lawsuit against my old therapist and have his license taken away. I had to go in therapy to get rid of my trust issues with therapists LOL, and I still have no trust for male therapists.
As a result, I'm highly suspicious of all doctors. I only go to the ones who have been recommended by someone I trust, after checking their name & qualifications with the board, making sure there are no lawsuits against them, and reading all the reviews I can find. If it's a serious illness, always double or triple check with other doctors and/or my own research. OCD? Possibly. I'd rather be safe than sorry. I do have two doctors that I highly trust though.
Are you a mindreader today, bringing up my personal issues? LOL
some doctors can't tell the difference between the flu and a heart attack. (true story; the family sued of course.)
second guess your doctor every time. that's the only way to make sure you get the proper attention and treatment.
that's what second opinions are for. they came about for a reason.
I question everyone and everything, including my doctors. Blind faith and trust elude me. Thank God I questioned my doctors. They were wrong. I trust their motivations just not their bottom line or methods.
I've seen a lot of doctors in my 30 years.
I've only met two who I would trust more than I trust myself to research medical conditions, diagnose, and prescribe treatment.
Good doctors are hard to come by, but worth every penny.