> its hard to argue with a doctor when they say "lets just try this for now".
Yeah, I've run into "god complex" with doctors. It's a problem.
When my wife was in medical school she started to get sick and wasn't getting better. She went to probably half a dozen doctors. The outcomes were of the kind you describe "let's try this for now". In the meantime, she was getting sicker and sicker. Ultimately, she did her own research and was able to identify a potential diagnosis. She booked a visit with a specialist. As soon as she entered his office he said: You have a pituitary gland tumor, we have to operate immediately. This affliction presents very specific physical changes. She was in the hospital within a week. Six months later she was back to normal. The doctor said she was pretty much on a path straight to death and, had it not been for her self-diagnosis, that might have been the outcome within a year.
There are many problems in healthcare, cost and insurance are just two of them.
> Also, Fwiw i didnt downvote you, im not sure why you were downvoted.
I appreciate that. Right or wrong, for some reason I have always had this image of a petulant immature child downvoting on HN rather than engaging in conversation. Also right or wrong, I also attribute some of this to the serious failure of our system of education to graduate people who can actually think. They have elevated ignoring reality to a virtue and seem really proud of it. I avoid hiring these kinds of people like the plague, they have shit for brains.
Yeah, I've run into "god complex" with doctors. It's a problem.
When my wife was in medical school she started to get sick and wasn't getting better. She went to probably half a dozen doctors. The outcomes were of the kind you describe "let's try this for now". In the meantime, she was getting sicker and sicker. Ultimately, she did her own research and was able to identify a potential diagnosis. She booked a visit with a specialist. As soon as she entered his office he said: You have a pituitary gland tumor, we have to operate immediately. This affliction presents very specific physical changes. She was in the hospital within a week. Six months later she was back to normal. The doctor said she was pretty much on a path straight to death and, had it not been for her self-diagnosis, that might have been the outcome within a year.
There are many problems in healthcare, cost and insurance are just two of them.
> Also, Fwiw i didnt downvote you, im not sure why you were downvoted.
I appreciate that. Right or wrong, for some reason I have always had this image of a petulant immature child downvoting on HN rather than engaging in conversation. Also right or wrong, I also attribute some of this to the serious failure of our system of education to graduate people who can actually think. They have elevated ignoring reality to a virtue and seem really proud of it. I avoid hiring these kinds of people like the plague, they have shit for brains.