General Practitioner .Best guess based on his experience.
Two visits in the last five years, and both times his diagnosis was hopelessly wrong. Just realised about the second time after waking up in pain. I am not going to die, but it has cost me money in lost work time and both ailments are partially incapacitating, as well as the peculiar side effects with the wrong drug treatment. Second opinion was not much good as the second Doctor just went along with the first one!
2006-09-30 19:36:04 · 24 answers · asked by Perseus 3 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Go to a new doc and don't tell them you've already been to a doc that way they look at you without another person's thought in their head. I trust my MD but that's because I know what to look for in doctors. As a patient you have the right to request other opinions, but also being a patient without any medical background means that you have to trust your doc to know what they're doing (which they hopefully should). Best bet, research stuff on the web and bring it to your docs attention, tell him your not happy with the treatment or diagnosis, if it's a good doc he'll either give you a great reason to stay on your current regimen or he'll work with you to make you comfortable/successful with your regimen. My dad-in-law was type II diabetic for 10 years before they realized it was really type I (and after going to a new doc).
2006-09-30 19:45:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Hi, I have had a bad experience in the recent past where I had an open wound, which was not healing and It took my doctor six weeks to tell me that I had MRSA in the wound and give me antibiotics that cleared the infection. This was only when I had to take one of my children in for a check up and I asked him about the results ... He then said "you have not been informed because you have MRSA" nice eh?
Not long after, this doctor retired and my new doctor is wonderful. he listens to what you have to say and is open to any ideas you may have about your treatment. The new GP has been great with all three of my children and myself, I trust his judgement implicitly. I would also feel comfortable questioning his diagnosis if I felt I needed to.
I guess there are good and not so good GPs. If you are not happy you need to 'shop around' there is a section in your local PCT who can help you get another doctor, perhaps one who is a specialist in your kind of condition, I was about to go along this channel when my new fab doctor made his appearance.
Hope things improve for you x
2006-10-01 03:04:36 · answer #2 · answered by babe_boo 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well now this just depends on which country you are in and whether or not you believe that drs are gods.
I have a wonderful GP who has gotten me through some the worst times imaginable. I do know that there are many out there who are clueless though. It takes time to find a good fit and it is worth the effort that it takes.
Oh, and by the way, if you are sure the diagnosis is wrong perhaps you'd be better off telling them exactly what it is you have.
2006-10-01 03:30:19 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I absolutely agree. At 12 years old I was diagnosed with a 'grumbling appendix' whatever that is, even though the pain was in the wrong place went to a crescendo and ended abruptly, unlike appendicitus. I had a perfectly healthy appendix removed and presented to me in a jar.
At 35 I had my gallstones removed. The pain of gallstones was precisely the pain I had had at 12, diagnosed as appendicitus.
Gallstones are made mainly of cholesterol and calcium. No doctor thought to check if gallstones meant my cholesterol was too high. That was discovered 5 years later at a routine check for 40 year olds and my cholesterol was found to be 200% of the amount doctors classify as dangerous. In UK over about 7.5 mmol is dangerous, mine was 13.75.
They also found my triglicerides to be 23 when rormal is about 2.0. So with triglicerides (related to blood sugar) at 1,150% of normal, no doctor thought to check for diabetes.
10 years later I have a routine medical check for a visa and the diabetes is discovered.
I took my son to hospital in agony apparently from his knee. The doctor was told that for some time prior to that he had walked with the affected leg turned outwards. The knee was treated at 4 visits. No doctor even considered that he had classic symptoms of SCFE (a type of broken hip joint) even tthough a Google Search:-
"diagnosis obese boy knee pain limping leg turned outwards" offers SCFE as first choice.
As a result of the misdiagnosis of knee inflamation my son endured months of pain and now has one leg 6cm shorter than the other and waits until he has pain from the hip at which time he will require a total hip replacament.
If you take your car or TV in to repair you expect that the technician knows his job, can diagnose the problem and fix it. Why do we allow the most highly qualified, highly paid profession, Doctors, be so inept, offering no assurances, no guarantees, no comittments, no required standard of achievement in their work, no responsibility for their regular failures and bad guesswork and no aplogies for the many lives they ruin and sometimes even end.
2006-10-01 03:26:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
No I do not trust mine, I was not given blood results from early 2002 and in 2004 when my hair was falling out and had bloods done which I also did not get results for, when I checked two months later it turned out I was anaemic and had been since 2002. Again in 2005 bloods taken, did not get results still suffering symptoms a few months later I rang and checked to find out my results were frighteningly abnormal and was told just to wait and see my gynae who I was seeing in two months, upon seeing my specialist it was panic stations as these blood results pointed to me having a tumour which turned out correct and I had an ovarian tumour. I have no faith whatsoever, and I feel even if I change doctors things will be no different.
2006-10-01 02:47:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some of the doctors I trust most of the time But it seens you really should get a second doctor to have a say in your health.
2006-10-01 02:41:36 · answer #6 · answered by ancestorhorse 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! Most GP's never leave their surgeries anymore so have no idea of new medical practices. I was born with Cerebral Palsy 40 years ago so I've had lots of different ones. I've travelled a lot too so have seen many different kinds. Doctors can help but they are NOT perfect. I've learned to take advice from them but question their opinion if I'm not comfortable. One GP I saw kept telling me I had Spina Bifida despite the fact I'd been operated on for 20 years to correct my spasticity. IDIOT MAN!! I changed him!!!!
2006-10-01 02:51:16 · answer #7 · answered by Pixxxie 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
pretty much for anything in the Health section, the answers include: go see a doctor. but like u said, they arnt always right. I dont like going to the doctor because of that, plus the fact that they charge an arm and a leg. its insane, i prefer going with natural medication, it works better than doctors advice
2006-10-01 02:53:29 · answer #8 · answered by Dead Birds Don't Poop 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends what symptoms you have. We work independently of doctors and don't have to charge, but unlike your GP we can only advise. You might get better answers if you indicated you problem and why you understand any diagnosis so far to be wrong.
Hope you get to the bottom of this, good luck.
2006-10-01 07:14:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I hope you got everything situated with your situation.Personally I cant stand doctors and it is so scary and sad that we have to go through situations like yours. I am going through some things now and the doctor I am seeing doesn't seem to sure of himself sometimes. That right there should be enough to search for another one. Thanks for the question.
2006-10-01 02:48:17 · answer #10 · answered by Love Child 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋