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An old guy once told me how veterinarians were often better doctors than medical doctors because their patients couldn't confuse the diagnosis with bad input.
by RobertRoberts 5y ago
An old guy once told me how veterinarians were often better doctors than medical doctors because their patients couldn't confuse the diagnosis with bad input.
But, I've also met simply belligerent doctors before, that simply couldn't be wrong no matter what the evidence said...
There's human error on both sides to take into account.
- bena 5y agoWhich is really my point here. The person I responded to is laying the fault completely with doctors. But doctors see patients like him all the time. And they're often wrong. The cases where they're not wrong is survivorship bias at work. It makes "patient knows better than doctor" feel more common than it is.
- RobertRoberts 5y agoBut if you are the kind of person very conscience of your health (or lack of it) and know very, very well what is going on. Your experience will be "most doctors ignore my (the patient) input". So it's easy to see how skewed this can get based on perspective. I have been told once by a doctor that he flatly refused to see me anymore if I didn't do exactly what he said, but he was just wrong.