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<blockquote data-quote="Estherfromjerusalem" data-source="post: 550473" data-attributes="member: 77"><p>Witz, what a shocking story. I am horrified.</p><p></p><p>Here in Israel our health system is considered very good. I suppose it is, but even so, it depends on who is your family doctor. Our family doctor has been ours for many years, and he saved my life 33 years ago when he was a new young doctor and I had very bad pneumonia (almost died, was in hospital for a whole month). So I feel loyal to him. However, he has almost killed me twice. First of all, when I had real problems walking, and in the end when he referred me to an orthopedist for my legs, and luckily my paramedic son happened to be here in my home when he overheard me telling my sister on the phone about a strange feeling I had in my chest, and without my knowledge he ordered the intensive care ambulance to come (he told me "Mum, I just want my friends to take a look at you"). They came -- and it was off to the hospital, an angio, two stents put in, two arteries were 95% blocked!!!</p><p></p><p>Another time, I had been having strange symptoms -- fingers tingling, seeing stuff like broken glass out of the corner of my eyes, my fingers not really doing what I wanted them to do. When it disturbed my typing at work, I went to my doctor and told him "I feel like I am slowly having a stroke" and he said, "Oh no, not at all, it's nothing. Your blood pressure is just a little bit high." OK. I went away. A couple of days later I was sitting in a girlfriend's house and we were chatting, and suddenly out of my mouth came, instead of words, gobbledegook. I asked my friend to take me to the hospital. My left carotid artery was blocked, and I was having masses of mini-strokes because little bits of stuff were flowing up to my brain. I was operated on (and believe me, that is not minor surgery). A few years later I had the same with my right carotid artery, but by that time I could recognise the symptoms and I just took myself to a private doctor who had been recommended to me, and he also operated.</p><p></p><p>Believe it or not, we are still with the same family doctor. He is due to retire soon, and since he made those two enormous booboos, he has been so considerate to me and to my husband. But we are keeping tabs on our own health. One son is a paramedic, two daughters are nurses, my husband is an ambulance driver and a medic, and I always read medical stuff in the newspapers and on the net. So we more or less tell HIM what we want, and he always obliges.</p><p></p><p>I suppose the bottom line is: doctors are human beings, who can make mistakes just like anyone else. Today we all have lots more knowledge than lay people have ever had before. It's an invidious situation for the doctors, I think. </p><p></p><p>OK, those are my experiences of misdiagnosis, or even non-diagnosis.</p><p></p><p>Love, Esther</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Estherfromjerusalem, post: 550473, member: 77"] Witz, what a shocking story. I am horrified. Here in Israel our health system is considered very good. I suppose it is, but even so, it depends on who is your family doctor. Our family doctor has been ours for many years, and he saved my life 33 years ago when he was a new young doctor and I had very bad pneumonia (almost died, was in hospital for a whole month). So I feel loyal to him. However, he has almost killed me twice. First of all, when I had real problems walking, and in the end when he referred me to an orthopedist for my legs, and luckily my paramedic son happened to be here in my home when he overheard me telling my sister on the phone about a strange feeling I had in my chest, and without my knowledge he ordered the intensive care ambulance to come (he told me "Mum, I just want my friends to take a look at you"). They came -- and it was off to the hospital, an angio, two stents put in, two arteries were 95% blocked!!! Another time, I had been having strange symptoms -- fingers tingling, seeing stuff like broken glass out of the corner of my eyes, my fingers not really doing what I wanted them to do. When it disturbed my typing at work, I went to my doctor and told him "I feel like I am slowly having a stroke" and he said, "Oh no, not at all, it's nothing. Your blood pressure is just a little bit high." OK. I went away. A couple of days later I was sitting in a girlfriend's house and we were chatting, and suddenly out of my mouth came, instead of words, gobbledegook. I asked my friend to take me to the hospital. My left carotid artery was blocked, and I was having masses of mini-strokes because little bits of stuff were flowing up to my brain. I was operated on (and believe me, that is not minor surgery). A few years later I had the same with my right carotid artery, but by that time I could recognise the symptoms and I just took myself to a private doctor who had been recommended to me, and he also operated. Believe it or not, we are still with the same family doctor. He is due to retire soon, and since he made those two enormous booboos, he has been so considerate to me and to my husband. But we are keeping tabs on our own health. One son is a paramedic, two daughters are nurses, my husband is an ambulance driver and a medic, and I always read medical stuff in the newspapers and on the net. So we more or less tell HIM what we want, and he always obliges. I suppose the bottom line is: doctors are human beings, who can make mistakes just like anyone else. Today we all have lots more knowledge than lay people have ever had before. It's an invidious situation for the doctors, I think. OK, those are my experiences of misdiagnosis, or even non-diagnosis. Love, Esther [/QUOTE]
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