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How to get accurate information and ways to get answers from docs?
Just Want to Talk | Last Active: Jan 8, 2020 | Replies (37)Comment receiving replies
@stuckonu @goldleaf @gingerw You are getting to my biggest peeve about our healthcare system these days. Doctors no longer have private practices, they are hospital employees and have to abide by the hospital's requirements, making office visits very impersonal often, and then, if you get sick enough to be hospitalized, they are hands-off. When you would most want to have your own doctor there, the doctor with whom you have hopefully developed a rapport, you are treated by a bunch of strangers - hospitalists. I really hate the current system. So far, I have not had many doctors really rush through appointments as much as you are indicating, but there have been times when I would have liked a tad more time.
@goldleaf your experience is very unfortunate but I think most doctors are pretty intelligent. Granted, they sometimes do not diagnose as well as we would like which is why I now favor going to a major medical center. I find them to be much better about that. One doctor whom I recently saw for the first time about my osteoporosis has been extremely responsive to messages on the portal. She has been helpful and informative. My husband feels female doctors are better with the details. He may be right.
JK
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JK, thanks for sharing you own thoughts and experience as well as this observation: “When you would most want to have your own doctor there, the doctor with whom you have hopefully developed a rapport, you are treated by a bunch of strangers – hospitalists “ this is an example of Notice what You Notice “ So if we have an actual book dictionary from some period which might includes all of the last century, and you look up “ hospitalist “ you will not find it in the dictionary. In fact, the spell checker here wants to correct that word and insert hospitality
It’s like “ let’s make up a word that sounds good and important “
It makes sense to me that certain discoveries need to be named but sometimes it seems that there are risks and consequences for naming things. Of course this topic IMHO can be presented as a masters thesis or doctorate dissertation and probably should be to draw attention to language.
I recently said to my therapist that HB’s ( Human Beings ) “ language our realities “. She pulled out a note book that she had tucked between her leg and the arm of the chair and wrote something down. She asked me if I had noticed that she does this a lot. Yes, I had noticed. She explained to me that she only has one other patient who says things that cause her to think. I thought that it was interesting to me that she admits to only two HB’s who say things worthy of writing down. I liked that she shared that with me. More often than not I have people say: “ I have no idea about what you just said “ I do not get upset when I hear that because I’ve heard it most of my life.
I wrote something here awhile ago about get bad grades and lots of red F’s and D’s on papers and report cards until I went to a “ progressive college “ that didn’t grade on spelling, grammar, and other traditional writing conditions. The we’re looking for substance / creativity my self esteem changed as did my grades. In a way I think this relates to medicine in this way: “ if they only listened to what’s being said...”