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Are doctors now lazy and don't care about patients? |
"Hello doctor, I've been having pain and discomfort in my entire body daily for about 5 years now and some days it gets so bad that I can't get out of bed. I have my "good" days but most of the time it's hard for me to function in daily life and I can't do all the things I want to do. I also get headaches, SEVERE period cramps, lightheadedness and fatigue. I get sharp pains in my stomach and back that sometimes bring me to my knees. I'm a pretty tough 22 year old, but have cried several times from the pain and feeling helpless. Also, over-the-counter meds like Tylenol and Midol don鈥檛 help me at all" - Berry "Here's some Paxil." - Doc "Hello doctor, I've had serious stomach problems for about 5 years including sharp pains, discomfort, frequent gas, diarrhea and constipation. I eat healthy most of the time and don't eat fast food. I think my stomach problems have resulted from my teenage partying phase where I drank and did drugs. I have quit these bad habits but have continued to have problems." - Berry "Here's some Imodium AD.鈥?鈥?Doc I feel these doctors don鈥檛 take me seriously and they just hand me a useless prescription without running tests, asking me questions or even giving advice about diet and exercise or what could be causing my problems at such a young age. Are my problems too complicated and they don鈥檛 want to deal with them? Do they think I鈥檓 lying or imagining it? Where can I find good healthcare with a caring doctor who will take me seriously and actually try to help? In the meantime, I鈥檝e been self-medicating with Loritabs for over a year because it鈥檚 the only thing I鈥檝e found that has eased my pain and made it so I can function and have a normal life. Hi Berry54, I can tell you honestly that doctors care and are not lazy. The first thing you have to realize is that doctors are not perfect. That illusion about them or anyone else can be the source of much pain. They are not the healer, just his asistants. From their end they also can't talk negative about themselves because that will break their relationship with you. The second thing is your relationship with medical persons is much like that of a school teacher or any other professional. the things you think and say to them can positive for your benifit or negative and push you away from them, so go easy on the criticism. That doesn't build relationship. You need relationship with a doctor who has relationship with the healer. It sounds to me like you are getting symptomatic treatment. You say you have pain and they give you Paxil. You say you have diarriah and they give you some Imodium. That is because while interviewing a patient a medical person is comparing what you say with disease symptoms he has learned about sort of like a mechanic analizing an engine which you are not of course. I was a Navy hospital corpsman for five years and and did a tour of duty in Viet Nam. I've worked sick calls. I suggest you find that good doctor and be careful not to mention symptoms that you are not presently expirencing. That will cut down on false leads and help focus the interview. I resigned medicine as a career because of an incident at sick call. A certain man came to sick call on a regular basis with a marid of compaints. It didn't take much of this before he was labeled a hypocondriac by my fellow medics. I didn't appreciate their fun at his expense. What the healer reviealed to me was, "he is not looking for medicine, he's looking for me! I rate this question, Pain killer addiction/10 i think some people just dont care anymore, unless your guts are comming out all they give u is tylenol. Patient care is very bad. Depends on your Health Insurance. The tests would be very expensive, and they won't do them for free, or if they did they would lose their jobs. It's not that doctors don't care, it's just that they have been beaten down by the system, they just run an fumes now. And, yes, they could think you are lying. Just yell at them next time, make them take interest. Go make an appointment with your local Poly clinic and download all your medical problems to them. Stick to one doctor and one clinic. problem 1...call the "arthritis foundation" and ask them to send you some brochures...tell them your symptoms...then read thru the pamphlets (they have about 100 brochures) and figure out if you can put a name to those symptoms. In addition, severe period cramps, lightheadedness, fatigue and bad headaches are normal for females. Take a pamprin or midol. If you need "the pill" to control those periods then ask for it. But you must ask for it from a gynechologist. problem 2...if you drank and did drugs you probably tried to ruin your liver. I don't think a liver fixes itself so your doc just suggested something to halt any pain. If you overdrank then in time you'll have liver problems. Perhaps doctors don't go further with x-rays and such because those tests are super expensive and maybe you don't have the insurance to cover those procedures. When you get a good insurance plan that plan will suggest the doctors to go see. If you choose a private physician not on the list then you'd best be wealthy because those doctors are very expensive. I've never heard of loritabs. The name Berry sounds like a male's nic and seems Yahoo gave you a male avitar like they did me too, so it was difficult to figure out if you were male or female until you said you were having "period cramps"....that is, unless you meant period as a period of time. You totally hit it on the head. And not only just the throwing meds at the patient, they charge you $7000 to do it. It's just another example of corporations ruling the masses. The pharmacy reps give nice vacations and kickbacks to the docs that prescribe stuff, and who cares what it treats, I'm in Maui, man, on the drug makers tab! Every doctor is a quack until proven otherwise in my world, they're just in it for the money and the less they have to work, the better. |
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