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It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied.

Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

It seems to me like the whole medical profession is a big celebration of having an ego problem. Some doctors carry themselves with so much hubris it's hard to imagine some of them making ANY rational decisions at all, and all their processes, right down to how medical records are kept, seem geared around expecting obedience from the patient without revealing enough details for scrutiny to be applied. Compare that against professions like engineering where a few notorious failures have led to the presence of cognitive biases in decision making being at least acknowledged to a degree.

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[–] • 3 pts

you can barely string a sentence together.

I had to call an ambulance once and the paramedics were ploughing through the usual list of stupid questions, and I just really struggled to answer them and felt myself getting really irritable with this process. They kept asking me if I had been drinking or had taken any drugs because I was slurring my speech.

You'd imagine that a paramedic would be aware of what it's like to to be 72 hours into this and to quit expecting me to answer stupid shit. If I could have walked I would be stepped out and driven myself just to avoid talking to them.

Luckily I fall sleep in minutes and am dead to the world for 7 hours, but I only realised a few years ago that my quality of sleep was shockingly bad and that normal people weren't tired all day long. I was nodding off on the motorway at this point. Fixed now, and I feel 20 years younger

[–] • 1 pt

Fixed how? I didn't sleep for one and a half years, almost none, from benzo and opiate withdrawal.

[–] • 1 pt

Fixed how?

turned out I had a breathing problem that I was unaware of

[–] • 1 pt

I see! Glad you figured it out.

[–] • 1 pt

I think I might have one of those, what did you do to fix it?

[–] • 1 pt

I know the feeling. I had a viral inner ear infection once that caused debilitating tinnitus (imagine post-explosion ringing coupled with dental drills inside your head 24/7). After a week of poor sleep and another week of <1 hour of sleep per night, I started taking my spouse to medical appointments because I sounded like a drunken Alzheimers patient.

I'm glad you got your sleep sorted. It's a night and day difference to go from poor/no sleep to a solid night's sleep.

[–] • 0 pt

Full on tinnitus sounds really grim, I'm only aware of a faint whine if I listen for it. I wish I could go back in time and tell that stupid kid not to stick his head inside rock band's bass bins.

[–] • 1 pt

Fortunately my tinnitus was temporary and faded as I recovered from that viral infection. I don't understand how people with full blown "you're not going to sleep ever" tinnitus survive - you'd be looking at permanent surgical deafness, insanity, or playing in traffic as equally attractive options inside of a month.