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I've been helping a friend research her medical issues. They're not as severe as yours, but she's had similar problems with doctors acting as little more than e
by Zak 17y ago
I've been helping a friend research her medical issues. They're not as severe as yours, but she's had similar problems with doctors acting as little more than expert systems with partial data sets and unreliable memories. I was the first person to suggest an effective long-term treatment for her problem[0] after a number of doctors failed to come up with anything aside from the well-known treatments, all of which failed, some making the problem worse.
I'm not sure if there's an easy systemic solution to this problem. Somehow, doctors need to get in to the habit of thinking and looking at the whole picture. There's also a tendency for doctors to not listen to patients, which is exacerbated by a tendency for patients to lie.
[0] The major symptom is menorrhagia, and the successful treatment was nafarelin, a GNRH agonist. This appears as a standard treatment on websites updated this year, but I could find no information about its use for that purpose in 2007.