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**Tapupah** · 01-05-2009, 07:37 AM

Unfortunately those kinds of doctors don't exist where I live. In fact, I don't even have an in-network doctor in the town I live in. I drive out of state. There are so few doctors that getting in is a bitch, and they don't want to take more time than they have to. You get in, they rush you, you get out. Normally I wait in the waiting room an hour. I've switched doctors multiple times. My current doctor isn't as bad... but still... it's pretty much a waste of my money. Each one says something that contradicts the other.

Edit: To give you an idea of how rushed they are one of them spent 5 minutes with me, didn't close the door, and sent me off to surgery scheduling to remove my tonsils and half my uvula.

yeah, that's insane. that's the main reason i prefer university hospitals, actually. they generally have much more time to diagnose and you get a team approach instead of some small time practitioner trying to crank through 75 patients a day. What those guys do is play the odds. It's interesting that megatron posted those diagnostic tools with %'s. Surely that's a great tool, but if it's relied to heavily on, you can get a raw deal if you happen to have a rare problem. I've noticed some doctors just cynically play the odds (to be fair, they're somewhat forced to by the nature of the medical industry) but take your wife's issue with headaches/ fatigue. A doctor with 10 minutes per patient might be compelled to say ......"well, 90% chance it's migraine or stress" Contrarily, Serotonin Syndrome is really rare, afaik. I'm just guessing, but that's probably the case less than 1% of the time; so your wife ends up with a life threatening condition and dangerous drug interaction undiagnosed.

Personally, i think that's poor healthcare practice. Unfortunately, that's the nature of the beast. I doubt it's much different under socialized medicine. They too have to see a boatload of patients per day afaik. Anyways, imo, if you have access to a medical university it greatly minimizes this tendency, or at a minimum a doctor who is more thorough and prudent enough to take the time to critically evaluate each patient instead of playing the odds so to speak. Believe me, like you, I learned the hard way.

01-05-2009, 07:37 AM	#8
Tapupah Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 474 Senior Member	Unfortunately those kinds of doctors don't exist where I live. In fact, I don't even have an in-network doctor in the town I live in. I drive out of state. There are so few doctors that getting in is a bitch, and they don't want to take more time than they have to. You get in, they rush you, you get out. Normally I wait in the waiting room an hour. I've switched doctors multiple times. My current doctor isn't as bad... but still... it's pretty much a waste of my money. Each one says something that contradicts the other. Edit: To give you an idea of how rushed they are one of them spent 5 minutes with me, didn't close the door, and sent me off to surgery scheduling to remove my tonsils and half my uvula. yeah, that's insane. that's the main reason i prefer university hospitals, actually. they generally have much more time to diagnose and you get a team approach instead of some small time practitioner trying to crank through 75 patients a day. What those guys do is play the odds. It's interesting that megatron posted those diagnostic tools with %'s. Surely that's a great tool, but if it's relied to heavily on, you can get a raw deal if you happen to have a rare problem. I've noticed some doctors just cynically play the odds (to be fair, they're somewhat forced to by the nature of the medical industry) but take your wife's issue with headaches/ fatigue. A doctor with 10 minutes per patient might be compelled to say ......"well, 90% chance it's migraine or stress" Contrarily, Serotonin Syndrome is really rare, afaik. I'm just guessing, but that's probably the case less than 1% of the time; so your wife ends up with a life threatening condition and dangerous drug interaction undiagnosed. Personally, i think that's poor healthcare practice. Unfortunately, that's the nature of the beast. I doubt it's much different under socialized medicine. They too have to see a boatload of patients per day afaik. Anyways, imo, if you have access to a medical university it greatly minimizes this tendency, or at a minimum a doctor who is more thorough and prudent enough to take the time to critically evaluate each patient instead of playing the odds so to speak. Believe me, like you, I learned the hard way.
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