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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Alot of doctors are genuinely horrible people. [/b]I could run your ear off for 2 hours about my third pregnancy. I would not be surprised if doctors dismiss everything because they are old. [/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Maybe your parents are angry, anxious people.  But it’s at least equally likely (or maybe a lot more likely) that they have medical complaints and pains and [b]no doctor is helping them or taking them seriously. It’s VERY hard to find a helpful doctor for a chronic condition. Most are awful.[/b] Your parents aren’t wrong.[/quote]

[quote=Anonymous]Ageism is rampant in medicine. I agree with pp that [b]it's impossible to get doctors to take anyone seriously who has a chronic condition[/b]. 50% of the population goes through menopause, and there is little understanding of how it affects the body. More and more research is coming out. [b]The majority of doctors are mostly oblivious to ongoing research and are blind to their biases. [/b]Have some sympathy for your parents. [/quote]

And so anyone posting this is no longer making appointments with doctors, right? Please tell me this is true. [/quote]

People still have to go to doctors because they have the all powerful prescription pad and referral codes.

Having suffered a chronic illness for nearly a decade that multiple doctors failed to diagnose and instead treated me like a hysterical woman (common experience among middle aged women), and having participated in support groups for women suffering chronic illness, I can attest that many such people end up becoming their own doctors by doing the research and demanding testing and treatment and often solving the mystery of their condition with the doctor merely acting to sign the referrals and prescriptions.

I finally found an excellent internist who took me seriously and got me the tests and referrals I needed and sincerely apologized to me once my condition was properly diagnosed and it was clear I had suffered for a decade unnecessarily from a curable condition that multiple doctors failed to diagnose because they kept writing me off as a hysterical middle aged woman, an all too common experience in our medical system.

I’m glad I have this doctor now and we have a relationship of trust and she is helping me to recover my health. But I can’t get back the home and career I lost to medical malpractice.

There IS a big problem with how medicine is being practiced in this country - any sane doctor would agree with that assertion. It’s silly to scoff at stories of people who feel let down by their doctors who only spare them 15-20 minutes per visit if they’re lucky and often fail to do anything beyond pushing more pills for symptom control rather than truly promoting health. In fairness many doctors don’t have the freedom to really care about their patients, they are beholden to a sick medical system that is all about profits and very little about people.[/quote]

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