• TRock@feddit.dk
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    20 hours ago

    You don’t have to blindly accept what the doctor is saying, challenge them. It is after all your body and your life

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      20 hours ago

      LOL have you ever challenged a doctor? Expect more empathy from ICE.

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        19 hours ago

        Most doctors I’ve spoken to have been quite happy to work with me rather than against me.

        The unfortunate trick is you need to self educate to speak a bit more in their language. You also need to accept they are often working within rules that are unintuitive.

        E.g. I prefer a particular brand drug Vs the generics. (The delivery method was slightly different) I had to cycle through the generics so they could tick them off in the system. Otherwise it would try to automatically shift me to a generic.

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            19 hours ago

            I’m guessing you just mouth off at doctors, and so get treated like an idiot.

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              19 hours ago

              Guess again! I hope you never have to deal with what I deal with, but in a way I do. Suffering is a great teacher.

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                18 hours ago

                If you smell dog shit, check the ground. If you constantly smell dog shit, check your shoe.

                Most doctors are trying to help as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. 80-90% are fine to work with you, within their workflow. If every doctor you encounter is in the 10% then either you’re VERY unlucky, or you are the problem element.

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                  15 hours ago

                  I am an atheist, but I am summoning any and all deities or demiurges to visit a disease upon you, hopefully chronic, hopefully painful, hopefully trivially easy to treat, that you have this knowledge, and that every doctor will simply shrug and ignore you.

                  This seems to be the only way people learn. It is unfortunate.

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                    15 hours ago

                    Been there done that. How do you think I learnt to self advocate properly?

                    I don’t blame the doctors. They did their best in the time and with the information available to them. I didn’t fit the mould so they missed it again and again.

                    I could have done with the right treatment 20 years earlier, but I got there.

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              15 hours ago

              You’re a psychopath. An excellent candidate for medical school. Did you apply?