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Originally Posted by Sigaba
Boomer-61--
What guidance would you give a layperson seeking to educate himself (or herself) so that they could talk to their doctor intelligently when it comes to the process of making a diagnosis?
For example, an elderly woman I know was mis-diagnosed by a doctor. The misdiagnosis was only corrected because the woman's daughter kept asking questions. The correct diagnosis was reached but then the wrong medication was almost given. Again, that situation was cleared up only by the daughter's additional research and questions.
If this woman had let the doctors "just do it," she might have end up with a much more complicated situation.
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Good questions, and it's a concern of mine as well because I feel I have a responsibility to myself to be educated as much as possible about my own health and well being.
I had a difference of opinion with a doctor about a course of treatment last year and after trying to converse intelligently with her to no avail I told her to pound sand and went elsewhere. I was, in this instance, correct. Doctors are great...but they are only human and can't know everything. Especially about what's going on in a person's body.
However I believe Boomer61 is referring to people who come in
"dictating" vice asking questions and mentioning they've been reading up etc...