If doctors would talk to their patients, they wouldn’t be so prone to seek info elsewhere. The docs can’t have it both ways.
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Most doctors talk to their patients like we are first graders. I can't stand that, and I tell them to just let loose with the science. I can take notes and look it up later, but I don't need it all dumbed down for me.
Not only don’t they talk to you, they don’t read your list of ADVERSE DRUGS, and they sure don’t tell you about the side effects of their prescriptions. We get more info off TV commercials on that than from our docs and you can’t read that 5 pica print on those inserts even with a magnifying glass. And they don’t believe you when you do tell them about the ‘obscur side effects’ which for you has become a major side effect.
How do they think we become educated on all that is caused by any major condition, they sure don’t tell us. I learned more about my Fibromyalgia and how to treat it, what is most common side conditions, what works, and what doesn’t from internet research.
I google every new drug before I fill it.
That's right. But, it's hard to talk when you have 6 patients scheduled per hour.
It's not about your health, it's about their profits.
Seriously. If doctors would allow patients to email them and would answer their emails, it would be great. They could even charge fees for this access. Only one doc I know has such access, and he’s a doc who doesn’t take insurance. He answers every email within hours.
Since we have no access to the doctor, and his bulldogs who answer the phone know nothing, we have no choice but to visit Dr. google!
The last time I saw a doc he didn't even touch me. Have you ever had a doc call and ask how you're doing?