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Posted on 10/10/2025 11:41:39 AM PDT by MrsMNJohnnie
I don't trust doctors at all. I am over 50 years old and I have only trusted THREE doctors in my entire life- I don't trust them.
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I can’t find one that speaks englishl
I totally trust my MD.
He’s Nigerian, went to med school there. Nigerian med schools are not funded by pharmaceutical companies. He doesn’t push drugs on me, but prescribes a handful of nutritional supplements to keep me healthy. He also didn’t think I needed a covid shot.
Me:
should I get that vax?
Doc:
You look really healthy to me, come back in six months.
Best doc ever.
The next time you have a 104 degree temperature or severe chest pains, go see your local mechanic. He might even throw in a free oil change......
And probably have a more accurate dx and treatment plan.
Most doctors are mediocre and go by flow charts. The incoming AI doctors will do the same but cheaper. 2 sent my wife into ICU through carelessness and one poisoned her where she had to have emergency surgery to prevent permanent blindness. It’s a matter of luck on what you get.
They are merely cogs in the machine.
Thank goodness my wife is a nurse. She knows who to avoid and who to trust.
One Friday night about a year ago when I was unconscious and teetering on renal failure due to kidney stones SHE knew which one to trust.
Thankfully she trusted the attending Urologist rather than the holier than thou it can wait until Monday Nephrologist or everyone agrees I wouldn’t be here today.
Why should you trust a car mechanic?
At some point, MOST doctors that were A students in school and college, once in the professional world, where time equals money, teach themselves that there is excellence in mediocrity.
They learn that they can make money the more procedures they do, the more they prescribe, even if not really necessary.
Many doctors have their own “philosophy” which they bring into medicine. That’s fine if this philosophy is in synch with what is best for you.
You don’t really have the power of the purse in most cases. Insurance, some government program, is paying. You also have limited legal recourse even if the doctor fails you as long as he stayed within the standard of care (look at the folks that ended up with problems after they got their clot shot for Covid)...
Should you trust the doctor? Only if you have a relationship where he has (((proven himself))) professional, ethical, and competent. Otherwise, trusting him is like trusting some random car mechanic that simply gets paid a lot more.
I can refer you to a Navajo medicine man.
The last time we saw him was a few years ago. After a game, a few of us were sitting at the picnic table enjoying a pizza one of the guys had gone out and purchased for us.
One of the guys said to Homer (who was a cheap SOB), when are you going to buy us a pizza? Homer said "over my dead body, heh, heh, heh". A week later he was found dead in his home from an apparent heart attack.
He was supposed to meet his best friend for coffee, and when he didn't show up, his friend tried calling him and never got an answer. So the friend went to his home and when there was no answer to the doorbell, the friend called the police.
The real sad part was that Homer had no immediate family and lay in the county morgue for almost two weeks until one of our players checked his softball league waiver which listed a niece as contact in the event of an emergency.
After the funeral, the niece held a luncheon and all the ball players who showed up took real advantage of the luncheon menu and the open bar as a final tribute to Homer.....The last laugh was on him I guess.
Back in July 2010, I was given an antibiotic for a bladder infection. Two hours after taking it, I began having terrible pains on the left side of my abdomen. It passed. I felt good enough to eat supper, and took the second pill for the day. Again, within two hours I was in even worse pain. It was so bad, I crawled into bed and tossed and turned. Around midnight I got up feeling nauseous. I threw up my supper, felt better and went back to bed. The next morning the abdominal pain was gone, but there was tenderness in my lower abdomen. The first thing I did was check the side effects for the medication I had been given. After reading them, I figured I had had a bad reaction to the antibiotic. I called the urologist's office and spoke to them. They agreed it could be a reaction, and told me they were going to prescribe something else. This was Tuesday. I was fine all day, but still had the tenderness in my lower abdomen. Wednesday was the same. I went to bed early Thursday morning, and while lying in bed, I thought: "What if it isn't just a bad reaction?" It was 2 a.m. I decided to get up and go to the ER to have it checked out, figuring if it was just a reaction, I'd be home in a couple of hours. Turns out I had a perforated bowel from diverticulitis. Had I not gone to the hospital, I might have developed peritonitis, which would have been worse. I ended up having a temporary colostomy, which they reversed three months later. I'm a 78 year old woman.
I had a good surgeon who eventually left the State and moved to Tennessee. I respected her opinion so much, that when I ended up having to have my gall bladder out, I called her office in Tennessee to see if she could recommend another surgeon, which she did. And he was spot-on too. Sometimes we have to rely on doctors. Like most occupations, there's good and bad. Besides my surgeons, I've had two good family doctors. The first I lost because he moved out of state too. The second is my current family doctor who listens to me, is thorough in her exams, not afraid to order tests/x-rays, and doesn't rush through our appointments. I was so impressed with her that when she left the medical group where I had been seeing her, I followed her to the new medical group she landed at, even though it's a longer drive. She's definitely worth it. She's the first female family doctor I've had.
Luck is good.
It’s the reason hubby and I are still here.
That and the fact that I now question everything we’re told.
I can count 8 serious medical mistakes HCPs have made treating one or the other of us over the last forty years.
Luck is good.
Blind trust is not.
The only one I’ve been sort of OK with in the last 10 years was a DO. Then the Covenant group she belonged to let her go. Maybe she wasn’t writing enough scripts to satisfy big pharma.
I used to go once or twice a year for checkups. Haven’t been in three years now.
Yea, keep thinking that. And when you ever need heart surgery, just ask for a general surgeon, it should be cheaper......Sheesh!
Same here. I'm a 78 year old female. Mine's the first female family doctor I've had. She's around 31/32. She came very highly recommended, and she's excellent.
As with anyone you hire to help you with an issue, “there’s money to be made in prolonging the problem”.
Demotivators had a Despair poster saying that. A friend at work had it on his wall. Then he was instructed to remove it - LOL!
I used to work with doctors when I was just getting started on a career. They vary widely on knowledge, temperament, and skill, as I’m sure you know. I always said that good doctors are a dime a dozen, but truly great doctors are PRICELESS.
I have a few doctors that I have truly trusted over the years. One was an orthopedic surgeon who repaired my badly broken ankle. When it came to painkillers, he would only let me be on the heavy stuff for 6 weeks. Then he told me I had to suck it up, buttercup. He was a smart, skilled, and caring doctor. He didn’t want me to be hooked on the OxyContin type meds, and I so appreciate that he was steadfast when I was in pain. He did the right thing, and I learned to mange the pain better.
The next doctor that I trust (I’m still his patient) is my ophthalmologist. He is smart and skilled, too. He performed my cataract surgery and implanted multi focal lenses 5 years ago, and absolutely nailed the surgeries. I have perfect vision at close, mid-range, and far distances, and I couldn’t be happier.
After that it my husband’s most recent doctor, a retinologist, who very skillfully repaired my husband’s macular pucker. As he said, he’s happy to hire out a kitchen remodel, but he sure knows his way around an eyeball.
However, when it comes to my general doctor, he’s a good doctor, but not an exceptional doctor. I listen to his suggestions, but I do my research, too. He knows I’m stubborn, but also smart.
I totally understand and agree with the trust thing. As a group, doctors need to do better. It’s the ones like Fauci who have really been the ones who destroyed our trust. I’m not going to tell you that you should trust them when there are so many that I don’t.
Docs have kept me alive way past my shelf date
I prefer pretty young docs for diagnostics
Men for surgery
I’m very happy with all my medical care
As is my family
You are right about surgeons, they are technicians.
While many people in the medical industry truly care about their patients, even they practice what could be called “paint-by-the numbers” medicine.
When multiple specialists are involved, they act like the blind men and the elephant — seeing the patient through the eyes of their specialty.
There is seldom any coordination among the various specialists, including when it comes to medication. Be sure to check any scripts given to you with all the various docs. You wouldn’t want a med from one doc to interfere or interact with other meds and conditions. In particular, run EVERYTHING past your cardiologist.
It is imperative to have a family member or a friend act as an advocate. Chances are nobody is keeping track of the big picture or orchestrating the treatments: not your primary care doc, and not the hospitalist, who will be swapped out for another hospitalist, then another, and so on.
Yeah, same. But if you do find one you trust, they are golden
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Fortunately, I have an up in years country doctor I rely on who I also consider my dear friend. He would be the first to criticize the state of the current medical profession. He warned me not to take the mRNA shot because it lacked proper testing. He’s past retirement age now and I’m not sure what I will do when he finally retires. He’s a little younger than I am so I will likely seek his advice even after he retires.
“Many doctors have their own ‘philosophy’ which they bring into medicine.”
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I can’t think of the word right now, but it’s an application of treatments approved by the local practice, which takes into account: cost, appropriateness, and what has safely worked for them over the years.
“PROTOCOL”.
MYy former-military Medic was excellent, but has retired. ALL my doctors have retired!
I trust “Physicians-Assistants (PA) who take the time to answer every concern...
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