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After my last bunch of medical issues, I lost confidence in this field almost entirely. Doctors (or at least most of them) are not critical thinkers. They simp
by goalonetwo 3y ago
After my last bunch of medical issues, I lost confidence in this field almost entirely.
Doctors (or at least most of them) are not critical thinkers. They simply repeat the knowledge they have seen in textbooks or in other patients. As soon as what you have is out of the common path, you are on your own.
I had to do my own research to figure out the cause of my symptoms and bring those to my doctors that agreed with my research.
- i_am_a_peasant 3y agoIt happens, I've seen a lot of doctors mess up. But they're still better equipped than you to discern medical fact from non fact during research. The sweet spot is a doctor that involves you in the decision making process, is transparent and intellectually honest. I've had doctors that admitted to me they didn't know what's wrong with me but gave me a list of probable options and a series of possible tests to undergo.
- goalonetwo 3y agoThe pattern that seems to work is do your own research and bring the probable diagnostic to your doctor that can have a second look at them. In my case, had I not do that my doctors (saw multiple) would never have diagnosed it. This was for a rare syndrome.