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Making our own decisions about our health

Chronic Pain | Last Active: Dec 12, 2023 | Replies (49)

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Hi @scottrl ,

I have mentioned research to different doctors as, lucky me, I have a couple of rare conditions. I said that I am using pubmed, nih, cdc, and nejm, and that this is so much easier than the research I normally do as it is in English and this century, and most likely my Latin is better than theirs. I ask informed questions. I print out my sources. I do not always get answers. Most frustrating appointment, apparently the doctor had googled my condition before seeing me and quoted what I wrote about it, to me 😉. And so no new solutions to my issue.

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That is alarming. Can this really be happening? Don't doctors go to a thousand years of schooling!!!!! I could have never got away with this on my job when I worked.

I find it's verry hard to have my MD listen to anything I have to say. His reply "who's the doctor?"