our midwife gave us some very solid advice to talk about with the pediatrician and ended it with “make sure to tell him you got this fror chatgpt and not a midwife, it makes doctors take you more seriously” :agony:
honestly she is such a well of information and such a kind-hearted good person and an elite expert, the stuff this woman can recall of the top of her head is mind-boggling, but gets slandered by our pediatricians boss it’s fucking gut-wrenching. They keep saying that she is part of some circle of sheisters that recommend unnecessary procedures to make bank and we know the truth but there’s nothing we can do…
It’s crazy how bad doctors are allowed to be at their jobs. I know a lot of it is systemic to the US’ hyper-decentralized market driven triaged medical system but basically everyone I know has a story about a doctor who just totally ignored them, got a diagnosis wrong, or made a serious surgical mistake. Unless they cause you serious physical harm and you win a lawsuit against them there’s really no repurcussions for mistreatment.
I understand people make mistakes but the fact that it’s so prevelant in medicine, one of the few jobs that really doesn’t have room for mistakes, is absurd.
My favourite part is if you file a complaint through the college of physicians, the first thing they do is hand it over to the doctor unredacted to get their side of it. So now the doctor knows you complained and can retaliate by putting whatever they want in you medical record, cause doctors believe other doctors but not us. If your record says, combative/difficult/hypocondriac whatever that will skew the perception of the next doctor.
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