Re: second opinions needed

Posted by JML755 on October 07, 2009 at 10:10:40 from (66.184.63.110):

In Reply to: second opinions needed posted by Minnie Mo John on October 07, 2009 at 01:19:12:

Concerned said: (quoted from post at 09:58:42 10/07/09) Feel free to give him a new one, he will likely send your records to the new physician of your choice and go take care of the rest of the never ending stream of patients. You could also go to 4 years of college, if you made straight As then go to 4 years of med school, then 4 years of residency. Post back in 12 years and let me know how it went. It sounds like your wife had severe anemia which is what venofer is used for. Does she have bad kidney disease? Likely. Would you have been happier if the doc did not treat the anemia and she stroked from that? Sure can happen. All medications have risks, the risks of venofer do not seem extream to me and I am a physician. It is hard to tell without knowing more about your wife but the symptoms can be hypotension from the venofer, allergic to venofer, food poisening, etc... It sounds like it was treated appropriately. Medicine is complex, yur wife sounds like she has many issues and all medications are not 100% predictable. Threats to sue will not concern the Doc, again without knowing all the details, likely he did what is acceptable standards of practice. Go to med school and practice medicine and you will find it is not all that cut and dry.

I agree with Concerned. Medicine is complex and there are no guaranteed results. My wife is a nurse in a specialty clinic that gets referrals from docs for patients they themselves can't help. People expect them to work miracles and are not satisfied when their body doesn't respond or they don't get the outcome they expect. There are so many medications with side effects that differ from individual to individual, it is impossible to predict what any one person's body will do. People expect doctors to be perfect. Well, it ain't so. Who among us is perfect at their job? Sure, there are accepted standards of medical practice, but have one little screwup happen and everyone reaches for the 1-800- number for the nearest ambulance chasing attorney.

Plus, with all the slamming of the medical profession, being called crooks by the administration, lawyers looking over their shoulder, ads on TV saying ask your doctor if ____ drug is right for you, malpractice insurance rates through the roof, medicare and medicaid reimbursements dropping, who would want to put up with the above mentioned decades of schooling to make, in some cases, what a line worker at Ford's can make on overtime?

Doctors are like any other profession. There are excellent ones, there are good ones, there are fair ones and there are bad ones.

BTW, our family has had issues with medical diagnoses that were less than accurate. No, we didn't file lawsuits. We accepted it because we know there are uncertainties in the medical profession.

Also, it seems that the less educated a person is, the more they rant and rave and expect doctors to be perfect. They cannot fathom the "I don't know" or "I can't do anything for you" answer.

DO question what your doctors tell you (in a nice, non-confrontational way) and give them ALL the information about your health. They are not mind-readers and you may have forgotten to tell them something when they took your history. DO NOT hesitate to get a second opinion.

Medicine today is light-years ahead of what was done just 50 years ago or so. But people's expectations are sometimes light-years ahead of what is feasible and, to them, their life is priceless and therefore worth the millions and millions it might cost to try and save it. And they expect their insurance company (or government) to spend whatever it takes. Heck, it's not their money.

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