I know of several doctors who became better doctors after they themselves got sick and learned first hand what its like to be a patient. Anyone else know of that?
2007-03-04 05:14:22 · 6 answers · asked by Doug 2 in Health ➔ Other - Health
i haven't heard of that before but it DEFINATELY makes sense to me because doctors and nurses who don't experience fibromyalgia or candida infections tell me i just dont have it because they base all their actions on text books which is an incomplete knowledge. I think if they went throught the pain and alienation, they would be less quick to judge and more accurate in treating ANYONE.
2007-03-12 00:02:43 · answer #1 · answered by TarasBoutiqueAtEtsy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
doctors are also mortals and so most must have fallen sick , even before becoming doctors - unless by sickness you mean serious health problems like heartattack, diabetes and cancer. Probably the only type of doctors whose sickness - if you can classify pregnancy as sickness--helps , are the obstetricians who get a firsthand experience and a better understanding of the process of labour and thus able to help those in labour. but otherwise I disagree with you. A doctor is a good doctor is always a good doctor, .
2007-03-12 05:43:08 · answer #2 · answered by nila 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so.
Some doctors are just simple good. Others have less sympathy for people - but they are getting better as a human, not as a doctor by such an experience.
Above that: I can't imagine that a gynaecologist who happen to be man is going to be better at caesarean delivery if he is going under appendectomy....
So: there is no doubt it could happen, but it's quite a sweeping generalization.
Actually I have an other generalization by personal experience: doctors are the worst patients! :))))))))))
2007-03-04 06:32:06 · answer #3 · answered by niihka 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no not really. I know of a doctor that got cancer and he was an oncologist. It didnt change the way he doctored until he was too sick to work any more. But it could happen to some doctors.
2007-03-12 04:46:23 · answer #4 · answered by Mary 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People who have already experienced something and learned from it make the best teachers! Perhaps that is why there is wisdom.
2007-03-11 16:35:50 · answer #5 · answered by lee c 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I haven't such experience. No, not necessarily. Good doctor is good doctor, no matter what!
2007-03-04 05:25:46 · answer #6 · answered by vdt 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋