i don't like doctors?

Question

most appear to be arrogant and uncaring. i mean you do pay big money for a doc's visit to receive lousy svc. so what's the best way to find a good doc & communicate w/him or her. i don't want someone chatty but someone who knows his job and will listen and explain and provide a good treatment and let you know how this will work and that everything will be fine; someone competent and caring (that won't treat you like a number)

Answer 1

The trend that you are noticing and the complaints which you have reflect on the population as a whole, not just doctors.

However, doctors are a vital segment of the population. And traditionally they are supposed to set a high standard. Lately there has been an influx of foreigners into the profession. I have observed many problems of ethical orientation in that sector as well as the general trend for everyone (doctors included) in the remainder -- to much focus on maximizing personal gain (money).

The charges are entirely too high for the simplest things now. Just walking into the office is enough to eat up half of the weekly discretionary income of a minimum wage earner.

Doctors must charge something, but they should be merciful to low income people.

Surgeons must work harder, but often their prices set new stratospheric levels and they decline to treat anyone who is uninsured or cannot pay.

When I was in the military I earned 13 cents an hour and did far more complex work -- and lots of it -- than the greedy doctors who later treated my chronic allergy problem, milking the minutes it should have taken into hours, and the entirely adequate $5 bills into $hundreds -- all for a simple, never-changing, chronic problem.

I used to burn about this until I realized that ultimately heavenly justice prevails. It will be a flawless justice too. Many last will be first and many first will be last.

Here are some possibly helpful urls insofar as ways to ameliorate the problem:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/tcw/2005/004/5.38.html

http://www.healthgrades.com

http://www.medical-zone.com

Try to find a doctor you like and stick with that one. Ask a female M.D. for suggestions, ask a young doctor where he would send his daughter for similar treatment. Remember to remind them that they need to assume their current knowledge but suppose they had a limited budget!

Yes they are often arrogant. Actually think they know more about allergies than someone who is scientific, also has medical experience, and has had a severe/chronic allergy problem for 40 years. Sometimes won't even listen, or won't give you exactly what you know you need.

The nurses can be even worse though. And I am sorry to say that the Male Nurses [New] are the worst of all. I believe some of them like to see another man in pain, knowing they hold power over that. Want you to kiss their foot or something.

And those latter know the LEAST of all.

Another thing that goes wrong, which I never practiced nor condoned, is that the person in the E.R. who is having the most AGONIZING PAIN has to WAIT for ALL the simpler, no pain malady patients ahead of him. I had company who witnessed this in Denver once where I waited for NINE hours in EXCRUCIATING pain, watching nurses and doctors LOAF and TAKE BREAKS and patients in no pain at all go ahead.

That was at a V.A. hospital where they do the least work for the highest possible cost of ANY meidcal establishment I have seen in my entire lifetime.

Sometimes you can see a female P.A., physician' assitant, or N.P., nurse practicioner at some H.M.O.s. So far I haven't seen very many of these, but the few I have seen have set a good record.

Even if you know what you need, you must get professional help, it is locked in by law, if any prescription medicine is involved. In my case I exhaust all non-prescription alternatives first. Often there are good ones; also very handy if everything goes down the tubes one day...A good hobby for everyone who is careful with their work.

I who am telling you this have lots of medical and scientific experience.

Maybe you should get input from other savvy people and write some articles about it.

Answer 2

me too.

being a service mind, they are converted to money making mind. So that causes all these issues. The more important they are more arrogant. This became a standard practice.

i went to eye doctor, he talked to me 10 lines i think in 20 minutes , completed all my generaal checkup test and pushed me out of office. he did not care even ask about my eye problems.

Answer 3

How about a nurse practitioner instead? They can offer a diagnosis of illnesses, write scripts, order tests, and generally have more time to communicate.

Answer 4

Go to a private clinic, rather than a hospital if that's where you're going now. If you're not, than I guess the only advice I could offer is to ask friends and look around.