Do you trust your Doctor's judgement?

Question:

General Practitioner .Best guess based on his experience.

Two visits in the last five years, and both times his diagnosis was hopelessly wrong. Just realised about the second time after waking up in pain. I am not going to die, but it has cost me money in lost work time and both ailments are partially incapacitating, as well as the peculiar side effects with the wrong drug treatment. Second opinion was not much good as the second Doctor just went along with the first one!

Answers:
Go to a new doc and don't tell them you've already been to a doc that way they look at you without another person's thought in their head. I trust my MD but that's because I know what to look for in doctors. As a patient you have the right to request other opinions, but also being a patient without any medical background means that you have to trust your doc to know what they're doing (which they hopefully should). Best bet, research stuff on the web and bring it to your docs attention, tell him your not happy with the treatment or diagnosis, if it's a good doc he'll either give you a great reason to stay on your current regimen or he'll work with you to make you comfortable/successful with your regimen. My dad-in-law was type II diabetic for 10 years before they realized it was really type I (and after going to a new doc).

I think you are the victim of bad luck. Not all doctors are inept. Ask around. Talk with other people you know about their physician. There are more good ones than bad ones.

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