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> After I yelled at my doctors for years to look more deeply This is the thing I hate most about dealing with doctors. As a child doctors failed to diagnose in
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
> After I yelled at my doctors for years to look more deeply
This is the thing I hate most about dealing with doctors. As a child doctors failed to diagnose in me a condition so obvious that a friend of my mother, who works at an airport, was able to figure it out from a mere description. Still my mother had to get angry with the doctor before he would perform a simple blood test for it!
Like in any profession, most of them suck at their job. That wouldn't be such a big deal except that the system in the US is set up to make it absurdly difficult and ludicrously expensive to shop around.
- podgaj 6y agoAnd, once you are diagnosed with a mood disorder they will not look at anything else. Anything other symptom arises from "my mood disorder". Skin issues, hyperlipidemia, gut issues, pain, etc...all in my head.
- mr_overalls 6y agoIn medical school, many doctors learn the saying, “When you hear hoof beats, think horses, not zebras.” Most physicians are taught to focus on the likeliest possibilities when making a diagnosis, not the unusual ones. However, it seems that some physicians oversimplify diagnosis so that _only_ the likeliest scenarios are considered. It's also an opportunity for subjective biases to influence an individual doctors definition of "likely." E.g. Trans broken-arm syndrome https://en.everybodywiki.com/Trans_Broken_Arm_Syndrome https://en.everybodywiki.com/Trans_Broken_Arm_Syndrome