Wow. What a saga. I hate the fact that doctors won't listen to their patients. I kind of understand the reason. Patients lie. They really do, all the time. Sometimes on purpose, sometimes by omission, sometimes because they are just plain wrong about what's going on with their bodies but insist on reporting their theories rather than their symptoms. At the same time, self-report is the primary tool for diagnosis, and so the primary tool for diagnosis is notoriously unreliable. There are ways to deal with this conundrum, but it requires care, empathy, continuity of care, and time. And the way the insurance companies run things, time with the patient and continuity with the same doctor are badly deprecated.
On the other side of things, I understand why patients lie to doctors. They need a thing, and getting the doctor to give them that thing is hard, and unreliable. So they work the system as best they can. It's a genuinely toxic relationship, made so in part by the way in which medicine is distributed and paid for.
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Date: 2017-07-27 10:33 am (UTC)On the other side of things, I understand why patients lie to doctors. They need a thing, and getting the doctor to give them that thing is hard, and unreliable. So they work the system as best they can. It's a genuinely toxic relationship, made so in part by the way in which medicine is distributed and paid for.