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Originally Posted by hha  This is true..most Drs.(I'm NOT saying everyone), do NOT listen to you...Even my future d-i-l whom is in her last year of nursing school will tell you the same thing, they don't listen to anything you say...Example, I took my son to the hospital a few years back, he cracked his ankle, the Dr on call was told by me, he has broken his ankle before..so, a few min. later he comes back and says, has your son ever broke his ankle before, the bone Dr said there was a fracture to it at one time..Now, you tell me he listened to what I had just told him...So, I will stick with what I said, MOST DRS do NOT listen to what you tell them! But, they're happy to take your money! |
Again, I will defer to the experience we had with our son and an entire year of having him in and out of the hospital, often in critical condition. He had a team of 7 specialist working on his case and believe me when I say the communication was key. Also understand that often times we would see one of those same Doctors at 6:30 AM and again at 9:30 PM. So, if I had to reiterate a symptom, or confirm what I said, or they said to me - then that is what I did. Communication is a two way street and as a patient, or a patient advocate part of that responsibility lies on you.
In the medical field, as in any profession you will find individuals that run the gamut from adequate to fabulous. It saddens me when blanket statements are made for an entire group. It was often one of the Doctors that hugged me when my son had once again taken a turn for the worse, or that would call me at 11:00 at night to make sure he had fallen asleep, or that cried with me when they wheeled him out of PICU and let us take him back home for the final time = cured. So, these same people that you say are ONLY in it for the money certainly showed me that often they are in it with their hearts...