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When doctors don't listen to patients (inspired by MM's thread)
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 550242" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>PlainJane</p><p></p><p>I've also been on both sides, worked with docs, as well as been their patient. I come from a long line of medically trained people, many of them nurses. I'm a nurse, my daughter is a nurse, my sis is a nurse, my Mom is a nurse......I'd go on but it would be boring. </p><p></p><p>My statement is based on my experience with docs in my area. If your area is producing better docs who are taught to actually talk to their patients then please encourage some to come to this area of the country, we sure don't get enough of them. Your experience also happens to be in your area, not the entire country. I did not say <strong>all</strong> docs don't listen to their patients and cop an attitude. Yes, I agree with you, there are some really good ones, some excellent ones. Finding them in this area is not always so easy, unfortunately. As as a nurse I've been told by numerous docs that they don't bother to pay much attention to what their patients say because they have no clue what they're talking about or they're drug seeking. Sadly, I've dealt with far too many nurses with the same attitude. Not all, thank heaven, but a disturbing amount. You hear it enough, and you assume that must be the philosophy they're being taught, perhaps that was a wrong assumption, granted. </p><p></p><p>I don't health care bash. I believe the majority of healthcare workers, no I actually <strong>know</strong> the majority of them <strong>are </strong>out their busting their fannies to give the best care they can. They are not perfect and are as human as the rest of us. And no there is no way they can possibly instantly recall everything they ever learned in our out of school. But to <strong>not</strong> acknowledge that there is also<strong> bad</strong> health care is just wrong, because we know for a fact that is not the truth. It invalidates those that have lived through it and suffered due to it. </p><p></p><p>So I'll just say that I disagree with you based on my own experience.</p><p></p><p>This post was intended to give people the opportunity to express their own experiences of when doctors don't listen, and that is what the responses were about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 550242, member: 84"] PlainJane I've also been on both sides, worked with docs, as well as been their patient. I come from a long line of medically trained people, many of them nurses. I'm a nurse, my daughter is a nurse, my sis is a nurse, my Mom is a nurse......I'd go on but it would be boring. My statement is based on my experience with docs in my area. If your area is producing better docs who are taught to actually talk to their patients then please encourage some to come to this area of the country, we sure don't get enough of them. Your experience also happens to be in your area, not the entire country. I did not say [B]all[/B] docs don't listen to their patients and cop an attitude. Yes, I agree with you, there are some really good ones, some excellent ones. Finding them in this area is not always so easy, unfortunately. As as a nurse I've been told by numerous docs that they don't bother to pay much attention to what their patients say because they have no clue what they're talking about or they're drug seeking. Sadly, I've dealt with far too many nurses with the same attitude. Not all, thank heaven, but a disturbing amount. You hear it enough, and you assume that must be the philosophy they're being taught, perhaps that was a wrong assumption, granted. I don't health care bash. I believe the majority of healthcare workers, no I actually [B]know[/B] the majority of them [B]are [/B]out their busting their fannies to give the best care they can. They are not perfect and are as human as the rest of us. And no there is no way they can possibly instantly recall everything they ever learned in our out of school. But to [B]not[/B] acknowledge that there is also[B] bad[/B] health care is just wrong, because we know for a fact that is not the truth. It invalidates those that have lived through it and suffered due to it. So I'll just say that I disagree with you based on my own experience. This post was intended to give people the opportunity to express their own experiences of when doctors don't listen, and that is what the responses were about. [/QUOTE]
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