Posted by Dinah on March 10, 2011, at 10:24:34
In reply to Re: NYT Article - Psychiatrist's rationalization$$, posted by glydin2011 on March 10, 2011, at 0:29:46
Maybe part of what we learn from this article ought to be that we should demand better from our doctors.
I know I should. I once had a primary care doctor who misdiagnosed a very classic case of kidney stones as diverticulitis and sent me to a GI specialist instead of a urologist. The GI specialist listened to my symptoms and immediately diagnosed me correctly. One thing I described should have instantly pointed her in the right direction. She also wanted to prescribe as a first line treatment opioids for migraines. Yet I continued to go to her until she left town.
I put up with a lot from my doctors and always feel slightly guilty when I look to change them.
One of the comments to that article was that someone had googled this doctor and saw that he got a lot of low marks on the doctor rating sites, with a lot of the same sort of comments that you might guess from the article. So maybe not all his 1200 patients are as happy as he might prefer to think.
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