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I am the PP you are responding to and I have fired doctors who think like you do, with glee.  I am not my cells under a microscope.  And I don't give a rat's ass what I look like in a bathing suit (nice jumping to conclusions about people).  But I do care about a lot of other things that I want my doctors to recognize.  I have personal habits that are vitally important to me -- running and eating a vegetarian diet -- and I want doctors who will recognize that I need to continue these things when the give me advice.  I have feelings, and if a doctor makes me afraid or sad (both have happened) I cannot communicate with that doctor and therefore I can't receive good medical care.  I could go on and on but I know that if a doctor can't recognize that I am a different person than the one sitting next to me in the waiting room, thats a shitty doctor.

And you are wrong about other "in healthcare."  I've had cancer, I have several chronic medical conditions, and I have a lot of doctors.  None of them have this ridiculous attitude.  or at least the ones who did, i fired.[/quote]

Actually, you are wrong. They all feel like the PP stated because THAT is their job. Some of them just pretend otherwise to make you feel better about yourself. If you need someone to take care of how you feel about yourself then you need a therapist. If you need someone with the technical skill and know-how to keep your body healthy then you need a medical doctor.[/quote]

I have an oncologist and a surgeon and both doctors are HIGHLY skilled but will also actually talk to me.  If I am anxious (as you would be if you had cancer) they will reassure me with actual medical facts.  If it is important to me to spend a certain vacation with my family, they will schedule chemotherapy sessions around that date.  If it is important for me to go running while going through cancer treatment, they will make sure that my side effects are treated in such a way as to allow for that.  This is not therapy, this is good medical care.  If either of them treated me as only the vessel for cancer cells, as you seem to treat your patients, no one would go to them unless their insurance forced them to.  the fact that you are attacking OP about not having her DD diet when ehr DD is, in fact, dieting tells me you jump to (negative) conclusions about people.

So I repeat -- you are a bad doctor and an asshole.

Hey, folks on this thread, would any of you go to this poster for medical treatment?[/quote]

I am sorry that you are sick.
However, most doctors say the right things. What they are thinking is another. 
Most doctors that I know who still get twisted up in all patient care issues do not survive for long. They end up in research or getting shunted to some other place where they take their burnout pills. 
Detachment is normal, it is the best way to cope. Even the smiling agreeable doctors detach, and some are really good at making you feel super special while still detached. [/quote]

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