What do you think when you find out someone is a doctor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with them socially. The doctors I know are smart, funny, and kind. But when I need a health care provider for me or my family, I try to avoid MDs. I have a strong preference for PAs or Nurse Practitioners. I think they are much, much better at listening and treating patients as people and not just a collection of symptoms. And I think they are usually smarter than doctors.

DH is an MD and some of the stories of the highly qualified and really good at what he does PA makes me shudder. Give me an MD anyway.

+1000000

[Anonymous]

I assume they are pretty driven and smart. Any other personality traits are still TBD as the other MDs I know are all very different from each other, they just share being smart and driven as unifying characteristics.

[Anonymous]

I assume their entire life has been an exhausting cut-throat experience and they'll be totally burned out by 50 unless they scale way back...but they won't know how to because they've always been b*lls to the wall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with them socially. The doctors I know are smart, funny, and kind. But when I need a health care provider for me or my family, I try to avoid MDs. I have a strong preference for PAs or Nurse Practitioners. I think they are much, much better at listening and treating patients as people and not just a collection of symptoms. And I think they are usually smarter than doctors.

DH is an MD and some of the stories of the highly qualified and really good at what he does PA makes me shudder. Give me an MD anyway.

(I am not understanding your comment)

[Anonymous]

I think of this scene from Malice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqeC3BPYTmE

[Anonymous]

Plenty of doctors are good at book learning, memorizing, and taking tests. And not much else.

Medical schools and residencies want good stats, so the students that struggle get pushed along, not counseled out.

Thus, there are a frightening number of people with MD behind their name who are poor, even dangerous, physicians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with them socially. The doctors I know are smart, funny, and kind. But when I need a health care provider for me or my family, I try to avoid MDs. I have a strong preference for PAs or Nurse Practitioners. I think they are much, much better at listening and treating patients as people and not just a collection of symptoms. And I think they are usually smarter than doctors.

DH is an MD and some of the stories of the highly qualified and really good at what he does PA makes me shudder. Give me an MD anyway.

I've reached the point where I will not see an MD unless I need surgery. I think doctors today are horrible pretty much across the board. The exception is the older (70 year old +) doctors who were actually trained to care for patients. Doctors today do nothing but order labs or other tests, plug the numbers into a computer, and prescribe drugs based on the results. My NP actually talks to me and spends time examining me. The last MD I saw might have been in the room five minutes. He never laid a hand on me. Just ordered a bunch of tests. He missed a diagnosis (Lyme) that my regular provider (NP) caught immediately.

I think the exception is surgeons. Most are amazingly talented. But I no longer trust any Family Practice doctor with my family's health. Just too many bad experiences. Plus, most have lousy people skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with them socially. The doctors I know are smart, funny, and kind. But when I need a health care provider for me or my family, I try to avoid MDs. I have a strong preference for PAs or Nurse Practitioners. I think they are much, much better at listening and treating patients as people and not just a collection of symptoms. And I think they are usually smarter than doctors.

DH is an MD and some of the stories of the highly qualified and really good at what he does PA makes me shudder. Give me an MD anyway.

I've reached the point where I will not see an MD unless I need surgery. I think doctors today are horrible pretty much across the board. The exception is the older (70 year old +) doctors who were actually trained to care for patients. Doctors today do nothing but order labs or other tests, plug the numbers into a computer, and prescribe drugs based on the results. My NP actually talks to me and spends time examining me. The last MD I saw might have been in the room five minutes. He never laid a hand on me. Just ordered a bunch of tests. He missed a diagnosis (Lyme) that my regular provider (NP) caught immediately.

I think the exception is surgeons. Most are amazingly talented. But I no longer trust any Family Practice doctor with my family's health. Just too many bad experiences. Plus, most have lousy people skills.

Yup! I totally feel the same way. Doctors are incredibly impersonal and almost act annoyed and condescending when you ask questions. I finally saw a PA after struggling with a chronic health issue (dismissed repeatedly by MDs) and she ENCOURAGED me to ask questions - I was so pleasantly surprised. She helped me connect the dots and got to the root of the problem. I've since had similar experiences with NPs and now always requests NP/PAs over MDs. They're smarter and more hands-on, in my experience

[Anonymous]

This is because of the pressure doctors are under to see as many patients as possible, bill as much as possible, have high patient satisfactions scores, and not get sued.

Also, PCPs and peds are often less smart than other doctors.

While surgeons are often very smart, they often have issues with seeing patients as people, instead of procedures.

[Anonymous]

Oooh I am soooo impressed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And I smile


Or am I supposed to think something else?

[Anonymous]

I know quite a few of them on a social basis and most of them have a god complex and think they're smarter than everyone in the room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with them socially. The doctors I know are smart, funny, and kind. But when I need a health care provider for me or my family, I try to avoid MDs. I have a strong preference for PAs or Nurse Practitioners. I think they are much, much better at listening and treating patients as people and not just a collection of symptoms. And I think they are usually smarter than doctors.

DH is an MD and some of the stories of the highly qualified and really good at what he does PA makes me shudder. Give me an MD anyway.

(I am not understanding your comment)

A doctor wife who tells her stories of how he saved the day from his idiot coworkers. Your standard my husband is a doctor ( bow down) spiel that the wives spit out in between blathering on about their latest vacation and new car and cosmetic work to keep from focusing on the fact their husband is likely cheating on them with that idiot PA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have no problem with them socially. The doctors I know are smart, funny, and kind. But when I need a health care provider for me or my family, I try to avoid MDs. I have a strong preference for PAs or Nurse Practitioners. I think they are much, much better at listening and treating patients as people and not just a collection of symptoms. And I think they are usually smarter than doctors.

DH is an MD and some of the stories of the highly qualified and really good at what he does PA makes me shudder. Give me an MD anyway.

I've reached the point where I will not see an MD unless I need surgery. I think doctors today are horrible pretty much across the board. The exception is the older (70 year old +) doctors who were actually trained to care for patients. Doctors today do nothing but order labs or other tests, plug the numbers into a computer, and prescribe drugs based on the results. My NP actually talks to me and spends time examining me. The last MD I saw might have been in the room five minutes. He never laid a hand on me. Just ordered a bunch of tests. He missed a diagnosis (Lyme) that my regular provider (NP) caught immediately.

I think the exception is surgeons. Most are amazingly talented. But I no longer trust any Family Practice doctor with my family's health. Just too many bad experiences. Plus, most have lousy people skills.

Yup! I totally feel the same way. Doctors are incredibly impersonal and almost act annoyed and condescending when you ask questions. I finally saw a PA after struggling with a chronic health issue (dismissed repeatedly by MDs) and she ENCOURAGED me to ask questions - I was so pleasantly surprised. She helped me connect the dots and got to the root of the problem. I've since had similar experiences with NPs and now always requests NP/PAs over MDs. They're smarter and more hands-on, in my experience

PAs and NPs are the future of healthcare. Within the next 10 to 15 years you will only see doctors for things like surgery everything else will be managed by mid-levels who will by then be going by a different name and train under one model. Mark it.

[Anonymous]

No thoughts or opinions. I come from a family of physicians and understand that there is a huge variation of of personalities, skill sets, competencies, etc. It is a huge field and too difficult to generalize.

[Anonymous]

I think he/she is probably an asshole and I'm a doctor.