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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who had a child who had to be diagnosed with a rare disease and had subsequent treatment, it is very hard to find a doctor who is a decent listener, which is absolutely the most important skill for diagnosis.  I learned I had to be very aggressive on behalf of my child and basically be a jerk if I felt like the person in front of me was not taking me seriously.  DC is ok but it’s not really thanks to any clinicians unfortunately, except for 1.  [/quote]

And I had a serious diagnosis missed entirely by a touchy-feely good listener with great social skills.[/quote]

Touchy feely and saying I feel your pain is not the same as truly listening to a patient attentive to clues that can inform a doctor about his condition and relating it to superior medical knowledge.  For the record, you did not need to be a US med school graduate to do this well.[/quote]

Op with a child with rare disease here- on top of just making the diagnosis, I also had to research and basically choose the treatment I wanted my child to have before the doctor even made her diagnosis.  The doctor diagnosed dd, and was a good listener, and then said “ok we are going to start with X drug today,” without even discussing all of the options.  I asked “what about Y treatment?”  And they had never heard of it and were not interested because it was a surgical option and they were rheumatologists.  Basically they have a hammer and every problem is a nail.  I talked to physician friends and family and we all agreed the surgical option was better.  It is scary how aggressive and how much research YOU have to do as a patient to get the best treatment.[/quote]

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