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My girlfriend's sister suffers from Long Covid for going on 2yrs now. Some of the problems she had early on is that most doctors wrote her off as either lying

My girlfriend's sister suffers from Long Covid for going on 2yrs now. Some of the problems she had early on is that most doctors wrote her off as either lying or anxiety. More than one ER doc said there's no way that Covid could ever cause lasting symptoms other than lung damage, which she didn't have, so it's likely just anxiety. There was one DO she saw, during an admit for tachycardia, who said that he believed that she has a post-viral syndrome and knew of others with other post-Covid issues. The problem would be trying to convince his colleagues to believe it would be an uphill battle, so he hoped it was temporary for her. I know things have changed now but some doctors can be extremely arrogant and dismissive of patients (female patients more than male).

irrational 3y ago
> but trying to get his colleagues to believe it would be an uphill battle You have to go through a lot of education to become a doctor, so people naturally expect doctor's to be wise, but the truth is they are just good a memorizing things. They aren't necessarily smarter than any other person and have just as many blindspots. * Source: My dad and uncle are doctors. My brother in law is a doctor. I have a friend who is a doctor. And I've known a lot of other doctors through them.
- talldatethrow 3y ago
  I dated a med school student for all of medschool and some rotations. Thus I have countless doctor friends now from those years. Everytime I bring up the reality of what most doctors are like, I get downvoted on HN for some reason. The doctor I dated for years never drank water. She loved diet coke. She ate mcdonalds constantly but avoided the bun. She was skinny though. I had to teach her how to pump gas because her dad did it for her until she was 22. She loved cocaine and moly. Currently cycles Adderall and Ritalin (or something very similar) so she doesnt get too used to one or the other. I could list 20 other 'wtf?' type of things about her. Most others are similarly weird, careless, unhealthy, confused and logicless.
  - 221qqwe 3y ago
    > She ate mcdonalds constantly but avoided the bun If she also skipped the fries (and had salad instead) that wouldn't be the worst imaginable diet.
  - symlinkk 3y ago
    She must not have been that bad if you dated her for years.
    - talldatethrow 3y ago
      She was an ok girlfriend. She's not the intellectual caring doctor people imagine when discussing advice from doctors.
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  - haldujai 3y ago
    > Everytime I bring up the reality of what most doctors are like Is your insight that doctors are regular educated humans suffering from the same flaws and vices as other regular educated humans? > She loved cocaine and moly. Currently cycles Adderall and Ritalin (or something very similar) so she doesn’t get too used to one or the other. Not sure what this is supposed to imply. I expect the same can also be said for at least 20% of doctors, dentists, SV, Big Law, Wall Street and Main Street in the 20-29 age range.
    - talldatethrow 3y ago
      Drug abuse, alcohol abuse, no knowledge of anything real world other than your job, are not qualities of "regular educated people". They are modern qualities of the loud morality failed majority these days. Just because it's common for celebrities and kids of rich people to do drugs and screw around, doesn't mean that's what my parents expect from their doctors.
- steve1977 3y ago
  I see doctors a bit like car mechanics. While car engineers would probably more be something like biologists.
pixl97 3y ago
Women in particular get a lot of 'mental' diagnoses for actual physical ailments. Endometriosis seems to be one of those terrible things that women are told to suffer with, then later if they have exploratory surgery they find terrible lesions inside their body.
t0bia_s 3y ago
Is she vaccinated with mRNA?
- RoyTyrell 3y ago
  She is now, but was infected with the virus before she got the vaccine. The vaccine was available but unfortunately she was hesitant about getting it due to all of the noise online and in the news. She was vaccinated about 4mo after being infected and had already been experiencing Long Covid symptoms.
  - t0bia_s 3y ago
    If she was vaccinated after infection, she probably has enough level of antibodies. (1,2) I hope she consult that with her doctor rather than online noise as you think. (1) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.04.21267114v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.04.21267114v... (2) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.12.21263461v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.12.21263461v...

irrational 3y ago

> but trying to get his colleagues to believe it would be an uphill battle You have to go through a lot of education to become a doctor, so people naturally expect doctor's to be wise, but the truth is they are just good a memorizing things. They aren't necessarily smarter than any other person and have just as many blindspots. * Source: My dad and uncle are doctors. My brother in law is a doctor. I have a friend who is a doctor. And I've known a lot of other doctors through them.

talldatethrow 3y ago
I dated a med school student for all of medschool and some rotations. Thus I have countless doctor friends now from those years. Everytime I bring up the reality of what most doctors are like, I get downvoted on HN for some reason. The doctor I dated for years never drank water. She loved diet coke. She ate mcdonalds constantly but avoided the bun. She was skinny though. I had to teach her how to pump gas because her dad did it for her until she was 22. She loved cocaine and moly. Currently cycles Adderall and Ritalin (or something very similar) so she doesnt get too used to one or the other. I could list 20 other 'wtf?' type of things about her. Most others are similarly weird, careless, unhealthy, confused and logicless.
- 221qqwe 3y ago
  > She ate mcdonalds constantly but avoided the bun If she also skipped the fries (and had salad instead) that wouldn't be the worst imaginable diet.
- symlinkk 3y ago
  She must not have been that bad if you dated her for years.
  - talldatethrow 3y ago
    She was an ok girlfriend. She's not the intellectual caring doctor people imagine when discussing advice from doctors.
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
- haldujai 3y ago
  > Everytime I bring up the reality of what most doctors are like Is your insight that doctors are regular educated humans suffering from the same flaws and vices as other regular educated humans? > She loved cocaine and moly. Currently cycles Adderall and Ritalin (or something very similar) so she doesn’t get too used to one or the other. Not sure what this is supposed to imply. I expect the same can also be said for at least 20% of doctors, dentists, SV, Big Law, Wall Street and Main Street in the 20-29 age range.
  - talldatethrow 3y ago
    Drug abuse, alcohol abuse, no knowledge of anything real world other than your job, are not qualities of "regular educated people". They are modern qualities of the loud morality failed majority these days. Just because it's common for celebrities and kids of rich people to do drugs and screw around, doesn't mean that's what my parents expect from their doctors.
steve1977 3y ago
I see doctors a bit like car mechanics. While car engineers would probably more be something like biologists.

pixl97 3y ago

Women in particular get a lot of 'mental' diagnoses for actual physical ailments. Endometriosis seems to be one of those terrible things that women are told to suffer with, then later if they have exploratory surgery they find terrible lesions inside their body.

t0bia_s 3y ago

Is she vaccinated with mRNA?

RoyTyrell 3y ago
She is now, but was infected with the virus before she got the vaccine. The vaccine was available but unfortunately she was hesitant about getting it due to all of the noise online and in the news. She was vaccinated about 4mo after being infected and had already been experiencing Long Covid symptoms.
- t0bia_s 3y ago
  If she was vaccinated after infection, she probably has enough level of antibodies. (1,2) I hope she consult that with her doctor rather than online noise as you think. (1) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.04.21267114v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.04.21267114v... (2) https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.12.21263461v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.12.21263461v...