do you have any faith in your doctor?

Answer 1

Yes, he knows me since i was a little baby, but when he calls my for my regular jabs, i go on a emergency holiday! lol

Answer 2

Absolute faith. If I didn't, I would transfer to a different doctor.

I trust my Doctor and have taken care to build up a mutually trusting relationship with him. Your relationship with your doctor is very important. After all, you usually only see him when you are worried about something - if you can't trust him, how can he help you deal with your concerns? But you have some responsibility if the relationship is going to be meaningful. You must be honest with him about your needs and expectations. You must ask him questions about why he does what he does.

Let me give you an example. If you go and see him and tell him your symptoms or worries, you must make an effort to be clear and concise. GP's have lots of patients to see and need to give them all a fair amount of their time. And you must be honest. If he only has half the story, he may not be able to make the best decisions. If there are things going on in your life that you believe are making you feel worse, you should tell him, even if they are not "medical" matters. If you are under stress at work, for example, (or because you are not at work, or have a problem in a relationship,) it will help him identify more accurately what is happening for you and what other factors may be affecting the way you feel.
Also, if he offers you help, a prescription for example, you need to say what your concerns might be about using the help he is offering, and make sure you know how to use it properly. Of course the pills he gives you won't work if you don't take them, or if you take them in the wrong amounts or with the wrong frequency.

If he offers a particular course of treatment/action that you really aren't happy about, ask him if there is any other approach that might be useful instead.

Doctors are doctors because they have studied hard tolearn their profession. Unless you are a doctor, it is not realistic to imagine that you know what he is going to say. One thing I hear often is from desperately depressed people who know they are depressed but won't visit their GP because "he'll only give me anti-depressants and I don't want to be a zombie." Two things:
1. Anti- depressants, (and indeed, many other medicines,) have changed dramatically over recent years and often work much more quickly and with fewer side-effects than many people imagine.
2. He may be able to offer other support - not just pills.
But if you don't ask, you won't know what's on offer

Doctors were not born Doctors. They are people too and, like all the rest of us, like to feel valued and respected. "Thank you for your time," and courtesies like that can improve your relationship with your doctor, and with anyone else you come into contact with. But, in the UK anyway, you still have a choice. If you honestly feel you can't develop a trusting relationship with him, (and let's face it, none of us can like everybody; that goes for doctors too,) then go find a different one and transfer.

Answer 3

Not really. I had a burst appendix when i was 15 and he misdiagnosed it several times. Luckily I didn't die but I did have it for over week. It was a trainee doctor in the end who insisted I got to hospital pretty quick! Also my doctor is foreign and old and I can't understand a word he says. I have never been back to him since I was 15 and don't intend to either!

Answer 4

I dont know anymore.My husband migth have cancer that makes him no eat and the doctor keep saying the problem is in his head,we will find out on the 9th next month so not to sure about them

Answer 5

My doctor now is ok, but ones I have had in the past have been awful and I think I might have been better booking an appointment with a special needs monkey.

Answer 6

no, I have recently changed my doctor of 20+ years cos he was an arrogant ar*se he always used to make me feel like i was just there for the fun of it, three examples Iwent to him about he dismissed and I later ended up in hospital because of them. some doctors beleive everyone is wasting tehir time and try to dismiss you. If you're not happy complain and change I'm much better off now that I have

Answer 7

All of my Doctors are young fem ale's That is all I will accept are female Dr. And I have complete faith in all of them.

Answer 8

not in general. I have a 15 month old who has had breathing problems since she was 3 months old. I kept getting fobbed off by the docs as being nothing til finally after keeping on for 8 months they treated her for asthma which is working.

Answer 9

i cant trust them, i took my 4month old baby there with a chest infection and she told me to wait and see what he is like in the morning, she also said he will wees allot. that night he was just how he said he'll be but i got worried, called the ambulance and they came out and took my son to hospital they then turned round and asked for my GP name because if i had done what she said i would of woke up to a dead baby. i then got given a new doctor.

Answer 10

I might if I saw the same doctor! Every time I go i see someone different