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Posted on 10/10/2025 11:41:39 AM PDT by MrsMNJohnnie
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I remember when we were in college, someone noticed that all the pre-med students were not the best and the brightest, but the ones most able to memorize. It’s nice that they can remember the parts of the body. I’d really like it if they could THINK about the parts of the body.
Whenever I need a specialist, I go to the best hospital around, find the chief of the specialty and apply to be their patient. Has worked brilliantly so far. But other than those guys, I wouldn’t trust a random doctor on the street. Especially the younger ones with possibly DEI education. I choose older doctors by their years in the field and hope I go before they go.
But primary care doctors are getting harder and harder to find. We just had to change ours and were complaining about it to some of the specialty doctors we visited. Who then went on rants of their own about THEIR problems losing THEIR doctors. Their only consolation was that they could prescribe for themselves when desperate.
A report out of Johns Hopkins not too long ago explained that the third leading cause of death after heart and cancer is medical mistakes.
Doctors learn to memorize, because that is what is required to get those As in class. It’s not like the TV series House. A doc who can think outside the box is a rare bird.
There’s no profit in preventing disease.
There’s little profit in curing disease.
There’s vast profit in treating disease.
That push of Gardasil for kids always seemed off to me. It did have bad side effects. It had some connection to sexual activity so I assumed that they were encouraging teens to be more receptive to having sex. (But what do I know? I don’t have kids so don’t keep up to speed on issues like this.)
A: What do you call the medical school graduate with the very lowest score?
Because they study humans in general and not you in particular.
Doctors have been telling my husband for months that his blood pressure is too high, (it was) and he would need medication (he doesn't). I pointed out that he was in a lot of pain contently and that raises your blood pressure. I was told, not that much.
He had a procedure a couple of weeks ago that reduced his pain level greatly. And his blood pressure has dropped to normal-low.
You need to study your own body, know what your normal is and know when you need to push. They can not do it for you. They see you for 20 minutes twice a year.
I have four kids in the healthcare industry, they do not trust doctors either. I have stories...
Johns Hopkins Study Points to Medical Errors as America’s Third Leading Cause of Death:
Beat me to it.
“ I can’t find one that speaks english“
Odale’ !!
Personally...I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for excellent doctors at the University of Washington.
Bingo!
Your medical history begins when you walk in the door.
“And probably have a more accurate dx and treatment plan.”
lol, brilliant and unfortunately about right. And he will not just refer you to a specialist who refers you to another specialist who refers...
My second oldest sister hated going to the doctor, because she claimed every time she went, they found something wrong with her. The physician she was seeing never bothered with her high blood pressure. My sister used the excuse that the reason her blood pressure was so high during office visits was "white coat syndrome." Turns out she actually suffered from hypertension, to the point she ended up with four aneurysms in her head. It was her eye doctor who spotted it, and referred her to a neurologist. They operated, tied off the inner-carotid on one side of her neck, which cut the flow to three of the aneurysms. She had one small one in the back of her head that they planned to follow with CAT scans. My sister had been a smoker up until the time she was diagnosed. She stopped cold turkey. That was in 2004.
Fast-forward 6 years later to 2010. She finally dropped the doctor who hadn't bothered to diagnose her hypertension, and got an appointment with a new doctor, one a close friend had recommended. Her friend accompanied her to her first appointment. On the way out of the office, the friend asked her how she liked the new doctor, and my sister, who always had a sense of humor told her: "Oh, he's just great. He told me I have lung cancer." And she did have lung cancer, which she passed from 18 months later in 2011.
Here is a perspective to consider... Even doctors do not trust doctors. Even with all the mandatory healthcare records and history on everything including a hangnail every new Doctor you see will not even LOOK AT THESE.
They immediately order all new testing from the bottom up because even they do not trust the competency of all your previous Doctors and testing!
trust but verify. trust yourself.
i certainly understand your disgust with the medical system. obamacare, politicians/big insurance, big med, big pharma, big public health, mr. ‘science’ experts, big academe credentialism, corrupt ‘publish or perish’ medical journals, etc., etc., has destroyed the trust.
imho, you simply have to take ownership of your own medical care these days. FR has many people who are experienced and knowledgeable you can trust to help with that. FR also has many people (i.e., medical professionals, purported and self described) i wouldn’t trust further than i could throw them. you’ve got to be a good judge of character. the Bible helps most with that.
for example, i trust Dr. Malone, but only because i read his substack. quoting the Bible frequently and cogently also helps with the trust if you’re a believer.
Oh, look at the dancing purple zebras sick.
Fortunately I have always explained this to my PCP and so they know when I have what is a slight fever in a normal person that I am actually quite ill. But unless you tell them, they don't know.
My father and my younger brother were both killed by errors made by doctors during treatment in a hospital. Nobody in my family has ever been killed by a bullet. Doctors are dangerous and will always get away with it.
Oops!
Q: What do you call the medical school graduate with the very lowest score?
Let her go or maybe she was offered a better deal from another group?
Maybe she wasn’t writing enough scripts to satisfy big pharma.
Bullshit!
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