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When doctors don't listen to patients (inspired by MM's thread)
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<blockquote data-quote="InsaneCdn" data-source="post: 550232" data-attributes="member: 11791"><p>PlainJane? Sorry. I'm with the others... and no, I won't write about it because I'd be here typing for years. NOT exaggerating. And yes... while I'm not married to an MD... I come from a family with lots of medical training on all levels (including a MD in family medicine). I'm not anti-doctors, but I do see major problems with the current North American medical practices (while Canada has a different approach to medical insurance, most of our medical training and practices are identical).</p><p></p><p>Medicine has become extremely compartmentalized. We have specialists for everything imaginable, and generalists whose only function is to filter out who gets to see what specialist. If you happen to have something that doesn't fit the current list of who there is to send people to... you either get nothing, or you get labelled as a nut case.</p><p></p><p>The link between physical health and mental health is extremely real. Failure to deal with physical problems leads to psychological problems. And once that happens? It becomes 100x more difficult to get ANYONE in the entire world to take you seriously... been there done that.</p><p></p><p>The fallout from the last 10 years is that I need serious medical care, but have yet to find anyone that I trust. Most doctors figure I just need 2-4 weeks away from difficult child. As if THAT will solve anything... but I'm not rich enough to pull it off, nor am I prepared to live with the fallout (difficult child would not survive).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InsaneCdn, post: 550232, member: 11791"] PlainJane? Sorry. I'm with the others... and no, I won't write about it because I'd be here typing for years. NOT exaggerating. And yes... while I'm not married to an MD... I come from a family with lots of medical training on all levels (including a MD in family medicine). I'm not anti-doctors, but I do see major problems with the current North American medical practices (while Canada has a different approach to medical insurance, most of our medical training and practices are identical). Medicine has become extremely compartmentalized. We have specialists for everything imaginable, and generalists whose only function is to filter out who gets to see what specialist. If you happen to have something that doesn't fit the current list of who there is to send people to... you either get nothing, or you get labelled as a nut case. The link between physical health and mental health is extremely real. Failure to deal with physical problems leads to psychological problems. And once that happens? It becomes 100x more difficult to get ANYONE in the entire world to take you seriously... been there done that. The fallout from the last 10 years is that I need serious medical care, but have yet to find anyone that I trust. Most doctors figure I just need 2-4 weeks away from difficult child. As if THAT will solve anything... but I'm not rich enough to pull it off, nor am I prepared to live with the fallout (difficult child would not survive). [/QUOTE]
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