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Dismissing doctors: How do you find a doctor who can help?
Bones, Joints & Muscles | Last Active: May 24, 2022 | Replies (102)Comment receiving replies
The limited "scopes of practice" among specialists is one reason I have been mentioning functional medicine.
I do think there is a tendency to blame medical issues on psychological factors when doctors cannot find a diagnosis that fits. The body is complicated and diagnoses are determined by insurance codes, essentially using a recipe book rather than a narrative.
I do think we cannot take it personally when a doc's practice is nervous about getting in trouble for prescribing controlled substances like oxycodone or adderall. There are agendas we are not always privy to.
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I'm fine with a neurologist referring me gastroenterologist for that area. I am NOT fine with doctors now using it as an excuse. They can't solve it, so they don't believe you. So they send you to someone else. If, as I have done, you have seen all these specialists, and you still get sent somewhere else. Or as the neurologist did, I didn't have Parkinson's Disease, which I am eternally grateful for, so they were done with me. It takes a patient's time and money to run around and see other doctors in specialties you have already seen. Or, back to one for something that was already diagnosed. If I lived close to Mayo Clinic, I would definitely go to their Fibromyalgia center. There is no cure, and some things just don't work. The battle against Fibromyalgia is on going and most of it is up to the patient. Find things that work.And do them.