Criticism of Doctors

This is exactly my feelings! I think medicine is a crucial field, but I have very little respect for individual doctors themselves.- Humans are self healing - if a doctor does absolutely nothing, most issues will resolve on their own or, if they're chronic (e.g. back pain) they won't be worse off compared to the alternative. I'm in a country with subsidised health care, and people go to the doctor immediately for absolutely anything. A doctor could have a 99% success record by

I've experienced this with doctors, who apparently are incentiviced to "treat" many people fast, so they've relatively often given harmful or meaningless advice, they want to be done quickly.I think those doctors are good people, it's a system problem: taking ones time (as a doctor) and looking for feedback the weeks after, to find out if they did right or not, isn't associated with any "reward" / kpi.

It might have something to do with incentives. In my country most people would complain that the doctor doesn’t do anything to them, and based on my experience living with doctors all my life (parents, sisters and now wife), I see they are actually bothered by people taking their time without reason and not being able to pay proper attention to the ones who do need it.

Just act like real people. Admit that you are not sure about something, have doctors talk to each other and not make the patient run back and forth, don't "protect" the patient from bad news (they have no problems giving the news that you owe 10000 dollars).For example, if one doctor is not sure about something another doctor said, they don't seem to be able to pick up the phone and ask the other doctor to clarify. Instead they often assume something and work with that ass

Doctors being bad at their jobs predates central banking, take the long held obsession with blood letting as just one example. Fixing finance will not fix doctors.If doctors want people to listen to them they need people to believe they’re very smart, and getting pulled into the mire of the specifics of people’s conditions would just result with both the patient and doctor finding out they don’t know enough and that’s bad for business.

"...turning my health around while my doctor expressed zero curiosity about my improvement, advised me other patients needed him more and scheduled me fewer appointments."I can relate.Noobs should also know that few doctors will escalate if they don't know how to help you.USA healthcare providers are playing twenty question lightning rounds. Ask as many questions as your 15 minute time window permits. Oops, time's up. Next!Medicine has changed dramatically

My experience is that doctors don’t even care about the data they have now. There are a lot of charts and info already available digitally to them and they mostly skim things and make basic diagnoses that are unhelpful and obvious. I keep finding myself in the position of pointing at them at things in the data to get better care. I think doctors are mostly a tax, and a barrier. At least primary care. Specialists also need to be managed in the same way though, and even in an ER situation I’ve see

Wow, that just adds another layer to the mess. Sounds like some doctors care more about business than patients. Glad you found someone who actually helped you!

My friend is a practicing doctor and we’ve talked a lot about medicine. The “quick fix” culture is one of his biggest complaints; from his perspective, it mostly comes from profit-seeking hospitals forcing larger and larger case loads. But also, if you’re treating the general public, you’ll encounter a lot of superstition, woo, and “Facebook M.D.s”, so as a patient be prepared to be persistent.

Yeah I don't buy this.Like any field I think there is a spectrum of quality and there are some really great doctors that know a lot, some really bad ones, and a lot of mediocre ones.I've had a doctor (in the bay area) tell me that I should smoke a cigarette instead of having coffee if I'm having trouble sleeping, but want to keep working on something. Another talk positively about the butter coffee guy. I think the main reason they don't talk about a lot of options is p