Posted by garnet71 on May 30, 2009, at 12:07:04
In reply to Re: Are the drugs that we're taking killing us? » garnet71, posted by SLS on May 30, 2009, at 5:57:00
Well comparing those of us who have suffered from poor health care from doctors with a bad car salesman really does diminish our experiences, it's not much different from someone telling you that your experience you choose to discuss is "old and tiresome" for whatever opinion, ignorance, or lack of empathy that person might have of your situation, and to just suck it up instead, discouraging you from talking about whatever is important to you. Treatment-resistant depression has also been around and discussed for a long time-is it a good idea for someone to come along and say that issue is old and tiresome to hear about?
Just like you suffered over the years from your situation, so have people with poor heatlh care. I don't see why talking about your situation has more merit than others talking about "bad doctors". It greatly affects people's lives just the same.
The difference may be that suffering for years with substandard medical care is preventable, at least in part, and is totally unnecessary--and should be discussed so that others can learn how to identify and overcome the issue, not be told it's old and tiresome to hear about. After having 3 doctors who used the same scope of treatment, it was easy to mistakenly believe my treatment was standard psychiatric protocol.
I've read many posts here about poor pharmaceutical management, and have never heard anyone identify until recently that they have not been prescribed effective medications because of the scope of a doctor's malpractice insurance. I live in a state with major malpractice insurance issues, have had 3 PDocs who treated accordingly; if you don't live in my state, or never had military health insurance, you may not be able to relate.
Maybe because you have good doctors you are just ignorant to what people go through who don't have health insurance and/or limited resources?
I was responding to what you said in your post, not the video.
"There are good ones as there are bad ones. This is true of doctors, nurses, and car salesmen.It gets old."
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