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by ladytron
3416 days ago
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Btw I'm no Dr. But I can read Google. Richard Feynman wrote about how when his wife got sick he figured out that she had TB, but because he was very young and a physicist her family and their doctors ignored him and his diagnosis. He acquiesed and did not push, which he later regretted. He said that only after they had tried many other approaches and wasted time did the Drs come to the same conclusion, but by then it was too late for her. At that point her realized he was much smarter than regular MDs and never took their word as gospel from that point on. That story stuck in my head as my friends and family have had medical challenges. |
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I have a relatively rare spinal condition and I've only seen 2 out of about a dozen doctors who knew what it was before they googled it and one of those gave me figures I'd already seen in a research paper I'd read and the other had less knowledge about my condition than I did.
I don't blame them since there are literally thousands of medical conditions and a lot of them fall on the long tail in terms of what they see on a day to day basis.
I'm not afraid of disagreeing with my doctors anymore though since often I know as much about my condition as they do.
It would be better if they didn't affect an air of omniscience sometimes though.
The only reason they found the condition at all was because I had an A&E (ER) Doc tell me to go back to the GP and demand an MRI on my spine, he was a good doc, he knew something wasn't right.