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Old 03-30-2010, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by artiemouse View Post
wow, that's amazing. I'm not sure if I have your guts. I am seeing another doctor (out of pocket) tomorrow and am not sure if I should ask if that is how they should do my MRI. How do you bring that up without the doctor getting mad? The neuro I saw made his dx in the first minute, in my opinion, that it's all in my head.
Hey I hope I'm doing this right. I'm responding to your question about making your Dr mad. I guess I did make him mad, but you have to remember your Dr. is YOUR employee, you pay him. You're not a good boss if you permit incompetency in your workplace, much less in your life and health. He told me I needed to stay off the internet, it was putting ideas in my head. I told him he needed to get into his profession and do some research like I have done so that he and I could have an intelligent conversation. This doctor was my family Dr. not a specialist, He would tell me there are a lot of illnesses that have similar symptoms like MS so I asked him to name them and set up the tests for them. He couldn't name any except for lymes disease which had already been eliminated. When I rattled off 6-8 diseases that could possibly mimic MS he was speechless. He looked like a deer in headlights. I asked him "you don't know any of those diseases do you?" He just laughed, that's when he said I needed to stay off the internet. I told him I was a very intelligent woman and he needed to do some research so the next time I came to his office we could have an intelligent discussion about my symptoms and diagnosis. I saw him a few more times because I needed his referrals, but from then on I told him what I needed him to do as far as specialist and referrals. Dr's are not Gods they are just people and sometimes not very intelligent people.
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