r/Maliciouscompliance He Thought He Knew More than Doctors

"never argue with a doctor" is hilarious as a woman who was once told that my ADHD was probably just my period. Another doctor told me that depression isn't real but then he prescribed me an antidepressant anyways. Another doctor told me that motor tics that had just started were probably caused by the ADHD meds that I'd been stable on for years (meds that in fact helped the tics, as I later discovered) There are in fact lots of reasons to argue with doctors lmao

First Story: This lady is just a dumbass lmao. It takes a few minutes to let a muffin cool down. She was too impatient to have it cool down and thush she got a frozen muffin

Imagine demanding a survey just to find out YOU built your house on the wrong side of the line.

Listen to your doctors within reason. They do not know everything, but they know more than most. I only say this because when I was 17 I went to my doctor with a mysterious lump in my arm. Doctor said he was 99% sure it wasn't cancer and told me to come back if it was still there after 4 months. I would be dead today if I waited those 4 months. It was cancer. A very malignant and aggressive cancer that I was fortunate enough to insist on checking. Doctors know a lot, but they are not God. Trust your body. Not the internet.

Story two: As a career health care professional I have to argue that not every doctor knows what he/she is doing. While most are competent and some are stellar, some practice all their lives without achieving even near perfection. Ironically, those are usually the most arrogant ones. I have seen patients who have dealt with misdiagnoses that ruined their lives. One prime example is a woman who was subjected to a lobectomy at seven years of age. A series of physicians and surgeons decided it was required to save her life, so they took half of one lung out. In her thirties she discovered she had a gluten sensitivity that caused asthma like symptoms! Once she stopped eating wheat her lifelong symptoms went away. That is just one example. Consider mental health issues, and how we treat them. In the ER we treat patients presenting the symptoms of schizophrenia with a selective seratonin uptake inhibitor (SSRI) like seraquel or zoloft, but there are other diseases like pellagra that present the same symptoms. An SSRI actually makes their condition worse and damages the brain, but since most medical schools are funded by pharmaceutical companies the bias to drug treatment first is inherent in the training. Proper procedure would try niacin (vitamin B3) first and only move to drugs if that failed to make an improvement. All doctors are not equally talented. Some are excellent diagnosticians and others are better surgeons, while a sad few somehow scraped through school and should never be allowed near a live patient. Every one of us should be willing to seek a second opinion if we have doubts.

I don't understand her problem. I'll get lasik and trade my my prescription glasses for readers. Readers cost $5.

Story 4: Oh good he didn't eat it, that would have been a health disaster if he did. Pro tip, patience is one of the top important things to remember. Things come eventually, no rushing, etc.

4:50 I want to agree but sometimes drs DONT know what they are talking about. Or are just prejudice. I say this as someone who’s dr just said I was faking my own illness to get pain meds, I say 85% of the time drs are right 15% know your own body

4:50 ok, I have to disagree here. As a woman that spent from ages 11-19yrs old that something was wrong and not a single GYN would take me seriously. Finally at 19 after I tore into my doctor he did a laparoscopy. Biggest apology ever and my case was written up in medical findings. A few years later, he retired and naturally new GYN said "it's al in your head", heard that all .my life. I had/have some tattoos so he thought I was drug seeking. His CRNP fought for me and he did the surgery and found so many issues. I won't go into it. But I had 6 surgeries in 17 months. I had 25 interns watch (no gallery, wasn't asked but also published his medical findings). I was 26 when I had an emergency hysterectomy that I fought to have for years and had scheduled the next month to the day. I still I one ovary left. TMI but women need to know. Adenomyosis, endometriosis stage 4 everytime in that 17 months, over 500 ovarian cysts since I was 11. I didn't have the knowledge you have or support. So sometimes you have to advocate for yourself because "it's all in your head" is BS Support each other and don't give make yourself small. Also I'm high. This was 25+ yrs ago

Just because a "medical professional" knows objectively more than you do about medicine, doesn't make them a good doctor, gives them immunity from making mistakes, or awards them with a pleasant bedside manner. In the early days of urgent care clinics, I went to one near my house because I felt awful. The worst sore throat ever, fever, weakness, etc. The doctor I saw never touched me--didn't feel my lymph nodes, didn't look in at my throat, never looked at my ears, didn't even use his stethoscope to listen to my lungs or heart. From a distance he pronounced I had bronchitis--a condition I had every single year of my life growing up in the house of a smoker and was quite familiar. I went home and got worse. My husband/boyfriend at the time came over and found me sick in bed, too weak to do anything. He fed my cats then took me to an ER. This time, I received an examination and tests. I was right. It wasn't bronchitis, it was Mononucleosis! Luckily for me, I was a teacher and it was Summer Break because I was laid out for about a month. My now husband took me to his place, took care of me, took care of my cats, did my laundry(!) I still remember that doctor who was so incredibly disinterested; my husband went back to make a complaint there about my lack of treatment.