Do you feel you're smarter than your doctor?

Every Living Person knows whats best for him/her. The doctor is working under a Great Handicap. There are so many things about his Patients life he does not, and can never, know. You on the other hand have Intimate Knowledge of your every Breath and Thought. If you do not agree with the Dr's Diagnoses do some research on your own. The Medical Information available on the Internet is Staggering. Try some different remedies. Think back to before your problem. What are you doing (living) differently now? Imagine what may be causing your disability. Perhaps a change in diet, or more exercise? Doctors have their own agenda. If you think you know what's wrong with you- You have the problem 9/10 solved. Go for it and Be Healthy!

I've felt this many times. I wonder how many illnesses go untreated at the early stage because Doctors don't have the time to genuinely listen to their patient's concerns. Alarmingly, I've come across many articles in women's magazines about people who went through months of pain with no diagnosis. Then again, medicine is not an exact science...but I do wish that their training would teach them humility and better listening skills.

Sometimes a visit to the doctor can actually make you feel even worse ..the appointment is around seven minutes long,so you dont have a lot of time to say your piece in that amount of time,and then by the time you have blurted out the problem its then the Doctors turn to reply and nearly always its a prescrition thats coming out of his printer before he has even finished talking to you...now i dont for one minute blame the Gp but the guidelines that have been laid down are a little constricting for them and they are tied up with all of the red tape...but all in all they do their level best to cope with it all.

Not all doctors are at the top of their class you know. But as for yeast infections, sadly they manifest themselves in many ways. I suggest a very thorough internet search. New discoveries are made every day, doctors can not keep up with all of it. And yes, I often know what I have before I go to the doctor. I have training in research and I also investigate things online also.

I know exactly what you mean. I recently went to the doctor for what I was pretty sure was Strep Throat considering everyone else in my family had it at the time. The only reason I was going to the doctor was for a note for work. I apparently went on the wrong day because I ended up waiting for about an hour and a half. Once I finally got in the doctor, who happened to be the oldest and slowest man alive, waddles into the room and asks me what was up. I told him that my throat had been killing me and left out the fact that everyone in my family had it, and sat back because I wanted to see how long it would take before he could diagnose the illness. Well he does the normal tests.. "Deep Breath, another deep breath. Breathe normal now. Hm..Interesting." And then commences with the throat examination.. He takes his nifty flashlight and a tongue depressor and "examines" my throat. To my utter dismay he states "Yep, you got some red bumps back there." Then he left the room. Came back with some Amoxicillin and sent me on my way. I wasn't thrilled with the "diagnosis." And I couldn't help but wonder how often he could have done that a day.. I guess it wasn't quite the doctor not listening, but I still believe he didn't know what he was talking about.

I feel your pain. It is so difficult to find a doctor who doesn't think that we are all either liars or ignorant. I have moved a few times over the years and every time I see a new doctor they take one look at me and think I have a thyroid problem. Doesn't matter that I tell them every doctor I've ever seen thought this, doesn't matter that all the tests come back normal, just doesn't matter. Same with my cholesterol. Doesn't matter that I tell them I took medication for years with no lowering of my cholesterol. Doesn't matter that I tell them it's mostly genetic. Doesn't matter that I tell them it was 300 when I was 30. Doesn't matter that I lost 50 pounds yet my cholesterol only went down 10 points (to 390). There's more, but that's enough. I feel better just to get to rant about it. Thanks!

i guess the doctor knows best...yet we maybe know by experience but cant really pin point on the cure of it...but our testimony on what we feel makes it more accurate on the part of the doctors to diagnose plus the lab tests...if you dont trust your present doctor then try another or seek for second opinion..

Actually many doctors now a days treat the patient as a body with a disease. There are very few doctors who listen to the patient fully. Listening is an art and the modern medical science gives hardly any opportunity to do it. Sadly many doctors forget to treat the patient and make him or her disease free or give adequate care. In our so called developing poor nation called India sadly it is also happening. Patients are unnecessarily pushed to go for so called routine tests. Just by using clinical acumen a lot of unnecessary examinations could be avoided. In US and other EU nations due to lawsuits doctors are doing defensive treatment now-a-days. The best advice is just change the doctor. Skin staph infection or yeast they all can be treated with one course of antibiotics and antifungals. If not then the doctor has misdiagnosed it. Remember the rule of thumb. Everybody can treat if they can diagnose. The real doctor diagnoses correctly that is why he/she can treat correctly. If a doctor declares the diagnosis for an infectious disease then he/she should be able to cure . If not it is a misdiagnosis. AAnd by the way staph and yeasts are present on normal skin also. So the site from which culture was taken could have been wrong also.

Kaeli from what you describe I think you do have another skin staph again small pimples and boils, what else could it be. get yourself to a different doctor who knows what 'staph looks like and most really good ones do know. there is a lot of info on staph on the internet so look this up also. yes some doctors do not know what they should 'but that is not all doctors. do a little search for a top doctor.

I must admit I do after the month I have had. It appears that although my new doctor is very friendly and did run the tests I needed. She didn't follow up on treatment I needed after the results. Luckily I knew that I needed straightaway, and after consulting a good pharmacist I began treatment. It also really bugs me when they treat your symptoms but don't look for the cause. If you treat the root of the problem then the symptoms go away. I like many of the others responding to your question believe in healthy eating. I have noticed that my diet really does determine how I feel.

I don't trust white coats unless I'm in one,lol. Last time i went to the doc i told him exactly what was wrong with me and scheduled surgeory right away. That went rather smoothly, all the way down to billing.... Anyhoot, I try to avoid the doc unless i really really really and i mean really have to go. Find another doc and get a second opinion. Call ahead next time and make them listen to your concern, that way when you show up they know how to begin the conversation besides "how are you feeling today"?