Being a bad patient can save your life

well being a doctor i dont want to have bad patients, but its duty of doctors to treat each and every patient as our relative, like how we take care of our relatives, we should take care of every patient. i have seen and heard so many doctors who give particular medicine just because the company is giving them gifts in the form of laptops and foreing tour, irrespective of the fact that those medicines are really needed for patient or not, or those medicines are the best and cheapest for the patient or not. I request all the doctors around the world to take care of a demon called RESISTANCE of a particular medicine... please dont give higher medicines when lower concentration and lower power medicine can treat it.

i never been bad patient, but i know a few person who is bad person they are people around me when they got medicine from doctor, they often forgot or didn't finish taking the medicine

My dad is good as gold at the hospital as a patient but let him come home and that is when he gets demanding and all so he is a bad patient at home..which can be bad for his health because he gets everyone strained and irritable.But I read the link. It does appear that it is best not to take things just cause they are handed to you and it is best to second guess things and always ask questions and why..If I am ever a patience I will have to try these things..might get the nurses to hate me but atleast it could save my life.

Oh yes, there are many doctors and dentists where i have just walked out of their office. I had been going to a doctor with a medical problem involving severe pain (look up Trigeminal Neuralgia) after 9 months I asked him when I all of the medication I had taken would get rid of the pain -- and he told me i had to be patient that it was a 'stubborn' pain. I went on to a different doctor. We must take responsibility for our medical care.

ersmommy1 hi I was in a care house, a sort of nursing home via rehab center for physical therapy for my shoulder joint replacement. well had I not spoken up and asked just what the hell are these pills I would have taken pills meant for a person in a different room. Now I have no idea what they all were but I knew they were not mine as I knew mine when I saw them. this place was later fined for negligent patient care and poor food preparation too.one aid was going to put an adult diapeer on me until I told her I might be old but I was not incontinent and could walk to the bath room just fine. this was one of the worse places I have ever been in. even some of the aides were rough and mistreating us. when I got out I filed a complaint against them. I have learned to ask about meds wherever I have been hospitalized and it has saved me several times. anyone can make a mistake and often nurses do make errors.

i never been bad patient, but i know a few person who is bad person they are people around me when they got medicine from doctor, they often forgot or didn't finish taking the medicine

I have had to be a bad patient to get the doctors and nurses to listen to me and give me what I needed to help my situation. I hate being rude but they did not want to listen to me. It is so hard to find a good doctor sometimes.

I believe you are right. Any more, if you find yourself in a hospital (horror of horrors!), you need to be very argumentive and aggressive and inquisitive. It seems the hospital staff depends on us being passive and dumb, so they can fill us with all sorts of bs, what to speak of medicine we don't need, which will probably contribute to us returning to the hospital sooner or later with some other problem we never had prior to taking their medicine. This keeps their pockets lined very nicely with money. I'm sure there are truly caring doctors and nurses out there. It's their big bosses that can really make things scary for patients. I'm sure the good medical staff people can get frusterated and angry at the way the medical system works, as their hands are tied in so many instances. I know a few people who have been bad patients. They were right to bring up certain discrepancies, but as a result, they got blackballed, too. One really needs to know who their doctor is. Do the research. It's sad it's come to this. I pray constantly that I don't get so ill I have to go into any hospital. At that point, I know my life will change, for the worse, if I ever do.

i dont think so!