Are doctors always right when it comes to pregnancy?

Question

I wanted to open this question for answers....doctors are capable of making mistakes....can we always go off of what doctor say about pregnancy?

Answer 1

I am an Army wife and it is my experiance in dealing with the Army doctors that they are not perfect and if I am not satisfied with one doctors answer I have the right to ask for a second opinion. If they have the same answers then I feel better about the treatment.

Answer 2

Doctors are human and make mistakes. They are in a highly challenging and risky profession where sometimes it is life or death to be wrong.

They train for rigorous years to be what they are and usually, they are right.

However, in every profession, any one can be wrong. Medicine, not always, is an exact science, and sometimes there are exceptions that can have a doctor prescribe wrong.

With pregnancy, every woman is different, so yes, a OB can be wrong.

My mother thought she was pregnant and took 3 prego tests in the 80's and they were all negative. She went to the doctor twice and he said she was negative. He gave her some medicine to start her period and it never came. He checked her out again, and he said she wasn't prego. But she said, "i knew i was". He then gave her a shot of something that would force her period to come. It never came. It could have hurt my little brother.

Then, what do you know, several days later, a prego test says positive. This went on for a month or so....

Yes, doctors can be wrong. But....that doesn't mean that we shouldn't listen to them. I would think that %99.9 percent of the time they are right and their advice and care is what we should listen to.

Even though I know this story, I completely trust my OBGYN and listen to everything he says.

Answer 3

I have had nothing but problems when it comes to doctors and my pregnancy's. I got pregnant with my oldest son when I was seventeen and early one had some problems with bleeding, the doctor told me that it was nothing and That I could go on with my life like normal. When I was four months they found out that the bleeding was from a tear in my placenta witch right before my sixth month turned into a detached placenta. I delivered my son at 31 weeks and had to have three blood transfusions along with an emergency c-section! But' remember all along it was nothing and I would be fine!
Then at 20 I found out about my youngest and was not sure on the last period because after the birth of my older son everything was irregural. well I went in they told me that my due-date was Dec.17 and I went into labor on Oct.19.... If you can imagine I'm thinking Oh My God daniels problems all over! No to mine and everyone else surprise he was born on Oct.19 only estamated two weeks early not two months! to make a bad thing worse they had told me that my second child was going to be a girl... oh no he is a boy! So do you see my bad luck with doctors! Lol..... Although they have done a lot of good things as well like saving my oldest life when he spent a month in the NICU.... I thank God for that. Also when Zak my youngest would not gain any weight for the first three weeks of his life! EVERYONE MAKES MISTAKE THOUGH....... DOCTORS ARE ONLY HUMANS!

Answer 4

I don't really know where you are trying to go with this question. I would always trust a doctor with what they tell me. I think unless I had hard evidence that they were wrong, i would trust them. If I just had a feeling that they were wrong, I would still trust them. Because they are doctors, they have seen so much more than any of us. Whether you want to admit it or not. I am not saying that they are incapable of ever being wrong, because everyone is wrong sometimes. But I would trust what they say.

Answer 5

Its kind of a vague question, but in general I think doctors can be wrong. They are human after all. I've learned that doctors take a more medicalized view of pregnancy and child rearing than I do.

Answer 6

so far mine has never been wrong, but this is my first pregnancy and the only doc i have been to. but i am sure there are docs out there that make mistakes, and also rude doctors. i think you have to find a doctor you like not take the only one available.

Answer 7

no. I didnt. Mine told me I had to be on bed rest because i had high bp. Even though i told them i have white coat syndrom and only get high bp in the office.

I didnt listen to them, i didnt the 24 hour urine test once, blood work once and then just said to hell with it. I felt WORSE being on bed rest. I had checked my BP at home and it was fine, so i went about my last couple weeks as normal.

I had a more than exceptional child.

I also got meningitis from the old HIB vaccine, my pedi told my mom i HAD To have the shot, and when I got sick he insisted it was for no reason and NOT to take me to a hospital. I spent 5 days rotting inside because of him. And two weeks dying in a hospital bed. Iam not supposed to be here, and certainly not supposed to be normal.

Beyond that, because of the antibiotics used to kill the bacteria in my joints from the meningitis, i had NO immune system from age 5-8 I literally was sick with strep every other week for three years. They just kep giving me more antibiotics. My mom finally got wind of natural treatments and I was cured. Never had strep sinse in all my life.

Beyond THAT i went to an OBGYN for the first time in my life at age 18, because i had horrible cramps all my life and wanted to go on the pill. They told me I would possibly die from it, and that i could never get pregnant without the pill. I was on it for nearly 3 months, it made me sick, they put me on a HIGHER dose, I got even sicker and quit it. My periods were NEVER regular, yet i got pregnant twice.

Before that i went to the ER with a lung infection, i told them I couldnt breathe. THey said it was a cold and to go home. I had to come back in a squad the next day because I had walking pnuemonia. They sent me home with pnuemonia at the ER because the resident doctor said it was nothing more than a cold.

Doctors can only look at something and make an educated guess, they are NOT the final word on ANYTHING.

I dont go to doctors unless iam broken. Theyve only made my life worse and never done any good for me, only harm.

Answer 8

well doctors are human and humans make mistakes, but I trust my doctors judgment. Anyway, who else are going to go to for help? I mean you could get a second opinion.


26 weeks, 1st baby

Answer 9

If you are talking about a test then yes because they test for the hormone your body only produces when pregnant. If you are talking about gender, possible complications and so on there is definitely margin for error. If you think your Dr is wrong - get a second opinion. Good Luck!

Answer 10

human error can happen to anyone - even someone with a medical degree..but what situation are you trying to determine that the doctor is wrong?

To the poster that said ultrasounds do not like - BS - ultrasounds are not 100% accurate they have a large scale of errors especially for dating, weight guesses and even the sex of babies.