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But sometimes you know your body and what's going on with it better than your doctor as hard as they try to understand it. Blinding trusting what a doctor says

But sometimes you know your body and what's going on with it better than your doctor as hard as they try to understand it. Blinding trusting what a doctor says to do can absolutely lead to the wrong treatment and outcome. At the very least you should get multiple opinions.

Yizahi 2y ago
Mandatory multiple opinions means that multiple doctors need to allocate the same amount of time for the patient as the original doctor. Then having two opinions is not enough, in case they differ you can't discern who is right. So you need three opinions for the tie breaker. So now each doctor has to see three times more patients, meaning admission wait times has now also increased three times. So the appointment in 1 week will happen in 3 weeks now, the non urgent appointment in 6 months is now 1.5 years away, and so on.
- meh999 2y ago
  You can skip 2nd or 3rd opinion, nobody denies you the right to do that. Still, you should not deny others the right to have 2nd or third opinion, especially since you yourself see high probability of receiving different diagnosis.
- SirMaster 2y ago
  It's not mandatory, but it is your health, so do what you like. I am just saying what I do and would do, and based on my past experience, I will continue to keep doing.
Braxton1980 2y ago
>Blinding trusting what a doctor says to do can absolutely lead to the wrong treatment and outcome But it probably won't be. Why would you counter an argument about probability by stating one outcome?
- SirMaster 2y ago
  I am not personally willing to risk my health on a probably. Past experience with doctors and procedures that I have needed or not needed make me realize how important it has been to get at least a second opinion.
  - Braxton1980 2y ago
    If you get a 2nd opinion and it differs how can you make a decision as to which doctor is right?
    - meh999 2y ago
      you get as many as required. it's your health, not your car where you can simply replace it. It's very difficult to recover from medical error.
Braxton1980 2y ago
>At the very least you should get multiple opinions. And then blindly trust those? Blindly trusting means you are trusting something without verifying yourself (as in "seeing it for yourself, not being blind") This doesn't apply if you can't do that yourself

Yizahi 2y ago

Mandatory multiple opinions means that multiple doctors need to allocate the same amount of time for the patient as the original doctor. Then having two opinions is not enough, in case they differ you can't discern who is right. So you need three opinions for the tie breaker. So now each doctor has to see three times more patients, meaning admission wait times has now also increased three times. So the appointment in 1 week will happen in 3 weeks now, the non urgent appointment in 6 months is now 1.5 years away, and so on.

meh999 2y ago
You can skip 2nd or 3rd opinion, nobody denies you the right to do that. Still, you should not deny others the right to have 2nd or third opinion, especially since you yourself see high probability of receiving different diagnosis.
SirMaster 2y ago
It's not mandatory, but it is your health, so do what you like. I am just saying what I do and would do, and based on my past experience, I will continue to keep doing.

Braxton1980 2y ago

>Blinding trusting what a doctor says to do can absolutely lead to the wrong treatment and outcome But it probably won't be. Why would you counter an argument about probability by stating one outcome?

SirMaster 2y ago
I am not personally willing to risk my health on a probably. Past experience with doctors and procedures that I have needed or not needed make me realize how important it has been to get at least a second opinion.
- Braxton1980 2y ago
  If you get a 2nd opinion and it differs how can you make a decision as to which doctor is right?
  - meh999 2y ago
    you get as many as required. it's your health, not your car where you can simply replace it. It's very difficult to recover from medical error.

Braxton1980 2y ago

>At the very least you should get multiple opinions. And then blindly trust those? Blindly trusting means you are trusting something without verifying yourself (as in "seeing it for yourself, not being blind") This doesn't apply if you can't do that yourself