Who out there is studying to become a doctor?
Before you do, you should know some things! First, patients don’t like it when doctors make you wait for hours on end after their appointment time but if the patient runs a couple of minutes late, the doctor “can’t see them”. Secondly, patients don’t like being handed a bunch of pills as if drugs are the answer to everything! Third, keep your mind and your hands to yourself…… only touching when appropriate. Fourth, put some effort into helping your patient! Go the extra mile and when a patient comes to you with an illness, don’t just dismiss or medicate it, tell the patient YOU DON’T KNOW but you are going to find out!! There’s nothing I respect LESS than a doctor who isn’t willing to put any effort into finding answers. Fifth, when a doctor simply doesn’t have the experience to know the answer; there’s nothing I hate more than this doctor who isn’t willing to REFER me to a doctor with more experience! Sixth, don’t expect your patients to respect you when you aren’t willing to respect them. Seventh, DON’T make EVERY diagnosis about ONE MEDICAL condition. Such as, you are depressed. You don’t have a medical illness, you are depressed. Meanwhile, missing the fact that the patient was exposed to toxic mold; for a real-life example.
If you respect your patients, then they will respect you. If not, well; remember RESPECT is earned, not GIVEN regardless that you have a medical license!! Your patients certainly didn’t give you that medical license BUT they can take it away from you! And I, for one; have no issue doing so!!
Does anyone else have anything to add to this discussion so that MAYBE someone studying to become a doctor will actually read this and finally know what it is that we, the patients; want in our doctors?
Eighth, spend some TIME with your patient; actually LISTENING to what they have to say!
Ninth, don’t bury your head in the sand when you KNOW another doctor is GUILTY of medical malpractice. Don’t bury your head in the sand when you KNOW another doctor is GUILTY of abusing their patient. Do something about it!!
Tenth, be a doctor who is willing to at least ACKNOWLEDGE that there are doctors who ABUSE their patients and be a part of the solution by listening to what your patient has to say, then reporting the doctor. Abuse by doctors is ALLOWED to continue because patients don’t have anywhere to go for help because NOBODY wants to talk about it. Don’t become an enabler!
And as far as doctors knowing best how to treat their patients? Well, IF they listened, MAYBE they could find solutions!! But they don’t listen! So how can they possibly know what the answer is?
Let me inform you that I’ve spent plenty of years listening to and doing everything doctors have told me to do and the ONLY thing I got out of it was LEARNING that they don’t know CRAP! They just THINK they do! Most of them are FULL of themselves and THINK they are better than everyone else just because of the DR in front of their name!
MAYBE the future doctors don’t have to be like this. It would certainly be refreshing!
Oh, am I looking forward to a couple of years down the road; when I will be that attorney who gets to EAT DOCTORS for lunch! Medical MALPRACTICE, it happens all the time. And I certainly can’t wait to be PART OF the SOLUTION.
Hey, if doctors won’t listen any other way; they deserve a date with the court!
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