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I'm not suggesting anybody to distrust their medical provider, and I disagree that it is anything like software. This is your body. It is your life. It is your
by SoftwareMaven 12y ago
I'm not suggesting anybody to distrust their medical provider, and I disagree that it is anything like software. This is your body. It is your life. It is your health. Nobody cares as much about you as you do.
If you distrust your healthcare provider, find a new one. But if your healthcare provider does respect you and your needs, isn't willing to answer your questions, then I also think you should find a new one.
And, as I've said elsewhere, I am not discrediting their knowledge. I'm recognizing that their knowledge, like any person's, is bounded. They have to care about hundreds of patients with hundreds of conditions. You have the opportunity to care about yourself. Take it.
- mtdewcmu 12y agoThat is right. Some patients are quick to see a conspiracy when doctors can't cure them. But some diseases are just outside the capabilities of current medicine. It sounds like you suffer from something like metabolic syndrome. It's a deadly serious disease that's unfortunately common, and one that has no cure (as with any chronic disease). >>existential fear resulting from the balance of power between patient and doctor than anything else It's the most elemental fear of all, I think. It's the fear of one's own mortality. Would the doctor-patient relationship be so fraught otherwise?