[bgill]

Who in their right mind goes to Asia for a yoga retreat?

Doctors seem to have a bad habit of writing off their female patients like this. If she’d have been a male, they’d have taken the patient seriously and run tests until they identified the problem. A pox on her doctors.

[rlmorel]

No, bgill. That isn’t the case. Rabies is, by all accounts, difficult to diagnose symptomatically, and there is no single test, and the ones that are available are expensive and esoteric, not to be done one someone displaying those symptoms.

You are wrong on this.

[cuban leaf]

GP’s are “almost” useless other than their golden ability to write prescriptions.

I got misdiagnosed the last time I went to a doctor. I went home and googled my symptoms and immediately discovered I had Gout, and even found an effective natural cure (black cherry juice) that worked like a champ. The doctor did not know what it was and just told me to watch it and take care of my big, red, painful toe. This was at Swedish in Seattle.

[vetvetdoug]

Doctors today don't take the time to get a thorough patient history. I discovered that the majority of my diagnoses came from patient history and observations.

The tentative diagnosis for rabies would have been in the history, not the symptoms.