* I was told in school to put a patient in a gown when he isn't listening or cooperating. It casts him in a position of subservience. --Chiropractor, Atlanta
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* I used to have my secretary page me after I had spent five minutes in the room with a difficult or overly chatty patient. Then I'd run out, saying, "Oh, I have an emergency." --Oncologist, Santa Cruz, California
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* The most unsettling thing for a physician is when the patient doesn't trust you or believe you. --Obstetrician-gynecologist, New York City
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* I know that Reader's Digest recommends bringing in a complete list of all your symptoms, but every time you do, it only reinforces my desire to quit this profession. --Douglas Farrago, MD
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Posted by rpersi (Member # 23958) on :
I like this one:
* Your doctor generally knows more than a website. I have patients with whom I spend enormous amounts of time, explaining things and coming up with a treatment strategy. Then I get e-mails a few days later, saying they were looking at this website that says something completely different and wacky, and they want to do that. To which I want to say (but I don't), "So why don't you get the website to take over your care?" --James Dillard, MD
Posted by Keebler (Member # 12673) on :
- Sad and illuminating.
Excellent suggestion to NOT have any procedure done on a Friday. -
Posted by treepatrol (Member # 4117) on :
You dont have lyme the test dosent show it.
But since you believe the Dr you go through years of testing and pain and suffering. Just because you believe your DR's? That dont know how to prime you for a western blot or any of the tests given for lyme. Or since they dont see a spirochete its not lyme or Dr sez's wonder what these little coccoid forms are duh!
What most dont know if you have had it for months and your body did recognize the invader and made attack cells that there to busy attacking the spirochetes to show up in urine or blood samples because there attached to the spirochetes In the Muscle or organs or in coccoid form in spinal fluid .
Oh and dont forget thats not a lyme bullseye you have dermititis or 1st2nd3rd4th5th disease or thats lupus DUH!!!
rant rant
Posted by ping (Member # 6974) on :
Yeah, I don't have much, if any sympathy for them...Blah, blah, blah. Esp. those who don't even wash their hands. I like the line I got from one doc, "I washed 'em just before I came in here"... Which means you touched the filthy doorknob before gloving (if) and putting your hands in my (_____). Fill in the blank.
Tort Reform legislation is designed to protect incompetent and sometimes, downright cruel physicians from having their licenses removed and removing licenses from physicians who actually try to help (like LLMDs).
Posted by linky123 (Member # 19974) on :
Dr Farrago in particular seems like a real warm and fuzzy guy. I think he does need to quit the profession.
Posted by JunkYardWily (Member # 24271) on :
this just reminds me of how little i think of drs
Posted by sutherngrl (Member # 16270) on :
Most doctors really suck! Only the few "that go where no man has gone before" are worth a toot.
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