[quote]chinadoll wrote:
belligerent wrote:
Magarhe wrote:
People who complain about doctors all the time. There are crappy ones out there but you gotta find the good ones. Also you might have something really weird wrong with you that nobody (or only a few) can do anything about.
I realize that there are good and bad docs but I think it’s deplorable and sickening that medical care is so “hit and miss” when it comes to providers. Medical schools aren’t getting it done.
This isn’t directed to Belligerent, and I agree with you Magarhe.
But this brings up to me a pet peeve. Doctors being expected to be superhuman gods.
All I can say is that medicine isn’t an exact science. It’s some of the best and the brightest people in our society, whom are human beings, as fallible as human beings are, making educated decisions about many different individual, ever changing, complex, imperfect human beings, who are all uniquely different in all aspects or their own lives, utilizing a science that is not exact, and utilizing the latest available technologies that are not yet advanced enough for a society who expects perfection (expects perfection of others but not themselves) and instant gratification, in a non-perfect world.
This is why I don’t expect my doctor to be a mindreader, God, to live my life for me, or to cure my thyroid problems RIGHT NOW when I ingested a diet primarily of soy products most of the years of my life, having caused long-term damage. (That is until I started reading T-Nation and realized that Soy is a big culprit–THANK YOU T-Nation!!). I do realize my doctor doesn’t have a magic wand, crystal ball or miracle potion at his disposal.
Unfortunately, I do realize that there are people in this world who expect these things of him, which is the cause of many excellent doctors becoming burned out and leaving the field, and many of the best and brightest potential doctors chosing other fields, when society needs them to chose medicine.
And this obvious fact is too bad for society, who has a shortage of many kinds of much-needed specialty doctors, while some of the best and brightest have left or have chosen some other field where their skills would be less optimally used.
Luckily, my doc’s a very good doctor who makes good decisions based upon the current technologies and information that are here, and this makes me happy he’s my doc.
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I think it is a generational thing. My mother thinks her Doctor is God. And when I met her Doctor I think he thought he was God also. Most of the young doctors I have met are aware that most people today are usually informed to a degree. And act as they are just practicing medicine