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Unpopular opinion: Fuck most doctors.
Why would you say that, a large majority of "doctors" are absolute shit. I took my kid to the walk-in clinic when he was three because he had a bad stomach ache. They said they have no way to determine if it's appendicitis and tell us to go to the emergency room, of course, still billing us hundreds of dollars for a visit where they did nothing. Go to the hospital and they say it's just a stomach flu going around and he'll be fine, bill us $3,000 after insurance.
After the hospital he starts having all these stomach problems. Take him to doctor, says he can't find anything wrong ($300). Stomach problems continue, take him back to doctor ($300), can't find anything wrong but prescribes antibiotics. Time passes and the stomach problems continue, end up taking him to emergency room one night after he wakes up not being able to breath. They run some tests and say they can't find any problems.
Problem persists, ends up seeing his doctor multiple more times. More antibiotics and 6 more trips to the emergency room. Problem is getting worse. He's now seen his primary care doctor multiple times and 7 different doctors in the emergency room.
8th trip to the emergency room, new doctor. After evaluating my kid, doctor asks what the results were of his stool sample. We say, "what do you mean stool sample." Doctor gets red in the face and says, "no one has done a stool sample?!" We tell him no. He gets angry and says he's going to report this, tells us to bring in a stool sample the next day. We do and after 6 months of my kid suffering in misery and pain, we learn he has colitis difficile, C diff. It took 9 doctors to finally do what should have been done the very first time we took him in. Things gets worse.
So we take him back to the primary doctor now that we FINALLY have a diagnosis. He admits he doesn't know much about C diff and his plan it to administer stronger antibiotics. BTW, C diff is caused by antibiotics, but I believe is also spread through hospital staff not properly cleaning rooms. My kid gets sicker, becomes so dehydrated he ends up in the hospital for 6 days. My doctors solution, even stronger antibiotics. I was terrified, these morons were going to kill him.
Luckily I had Internet access, this was at a time when Internet was still sort of new, and found a support forum for people with C diff. Just regular people who were sick of retarded doctors who only prescribed more antibiotics. This group of people got together and figured out what foods caused them to get sick and had a list of diet plans rated by the users of the website as to what worked best. I picked the #1 diet plan and immediately put my kid on it. After 8 months of suffering, he was 50% better THE VERY NEXT DAY. I told the doctor I wanted to cancel his visit to give him stronger antibiotics and continued with the diet. After two weeks on the diet, he did another stool sample and was cured.
The damage the C diff did to his body over those eight months lasted for two more years of fevers and sickness. Literally ruined three years of his childhood and it could have been cured in weeks. All of this was caused by incompetent doctors, all to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in hospital/doctor bills.
This story sounds like so many I have heard from people after I had a 5 year ordeal with serious illness on top of almost 3 decades of another one. The whole medical industry is corrupt to the core and the basic problems are the fact they can and do charge whatever they want if you have no insurance and if you do have insurance they will make sure they get over paid too coupled with the fact there is zero accountability for anything they do. If you want to really see what's up go look up the stature of limitations on medical malpractice in your state. Then think about the fact you'd need them to fuck up so badly that any jury will agree it was the doctor's fault because there is no doctor alive that will testify that other doctors did you wrong. When I hear the crying that lawsuits are why medicine is so expensive I get mad because it is a fucking lie. In the rare cases that a doctor or medical facility does get sued and loses the courts seal the records so the public can't see what they did. One small local hospital here is so bad no one wants to go there and they have started advertising on billboards around the area with shit like "safe" "trusted" and 'ready" along with some fat nigger in a doctor's outfit on them. Clearly those are three things this hospital is NOT, hence the billboards. Oh, I have stories, and a doctor's appt near there in a couple of hours....
My father wouldn't have done any of that for me. He would have just gotten progressively angrier at me for not getting better.
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