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deoxxys posted...

Now I know you have been having some bad medical issues but I dont think this is a fair shake for doctors

The amount of times they could make weeks of my life easier by taking 2 seconds to answer a question, but don't just leaves me no compassion for them. They take zero initiative ever and they take so freaking long. They ignore me when I go in there as evidenced by them asking stupid questions like "do I still go to work". I've been seeing you for 3 months and I can't stand up more than 15 minutes a day or watch tv most of the time, what the fuck do you think? They for sure don't do what they "can", they do what they are legally obligated to do and no more. I'm really questioning if they really do that much. The amount of times they have lied to me is insane for a position that is supposed to gain my trust. Like 30% of what they say is just veritably false so I'm left to wonder if they are intentionally lying to me or just that incompetent.

If one more doctor tells me "I don't know whats wrong with you, but you will be fine" I'm going to lose my mind. That's not how it works. If you know whats happening, fine, tell me I'll be ok, but until then, how can you expect me to believe anything you say after that? Only one of the doctors (the surgeon) actually admitted "well, I guess we don't know, I hope you'll be fine though, and we have ruled out most of the more common issues". Yes, tell me that if thats all you have but don't just tell be me a bold faced lie that is so obvious right to my face. I spend so much time every day working myself into a rage just thinking over the doctor visits I've already had, wishing I could have been more alert to actually force them to stay and answer my questions.

It'd be so much better for my mental health to just stop going but then I'd probably die. It's so frustrating that I have to rely on these careless buffoons. And maybe I'm just unlucky. Maybe theres tons of great docs out there and I just haven't had the fortune to come across them yet but I have seen about 30 doctors in my life and not one has been anything but brief and ineffective. This ignores the time they almost killed me 7 years ago by not warning me about the side effects of the meds they prescribed so I nearly passed out at the wheel or the fact they told me I'd be fine for months only for my heart to stop and me almost die alone in my room.

If you think docs actually do much of anything besides read a chart and fill in data, and recommend the obvious course of action as dictated by the chart, you're unfortunately deluded. It takes very little searching to find millions of stories of how doctors fucked up and people died for it. Medical error is the 3rd leading cause of death in the US. Literally only 2 things are more likely to kill you than a doctor fucking up (and those are medical issues too, probably plenty of which could be prevented if the doctors were better).

You are right though. I do need to stay positive. I'm doing my best to do so. I'm thankful for the kind words and time you took to read my post. I'd happily take some of your lipids if I could.

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