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Doctors are being empathetic when they restrain from pushing the nonsense quacks do, just to satisfy a patient's anxiety, no?
by stainforth 7y ago
Doctors are being empathetic when they restrain from pushing the nonsense quacks do, just to satisfy a patient's anxiety, no?
- jacobr1 7y agoIn this case we aren't talking about the remedy, but rather the diagnosis. If the doctor doesn't even acknowledge the syndrome is "real" or even further implies it is psychosomatic, it may drive people away from the more rational establishment to the fringe. On the other hand, empathizing with the patient, catching up on the latest research, taking the time to explain it to the patient and their options, is time consuming and hard to do with billing constraints and electronic medical records TPS reports and such. Much easier (for this class of doctor) to dismiss it all as patient self-diagnosis of quackery and move on to the next patient. My mother has lupus and when she first started showing systems her (prior) GP dismissed them out of hand and point symptoms and then started to treat her as somewhat of a malingerer. Ironically, it was her acupuncturist that drove her to see a rheumatologist - who took the time to go through a variety of diagnostics (and recommendation to a new GP and other specialists) to identify the problem and a treatment that let her return to life with things in a more managed state.