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Becoming a More Effective Patient Managing your doctor |
There's nothing more frustrating, or more dangerous, than having to solve your own medical problems. No matter how many hours you spend searching the internet, listening to the accumulated wisdom of your Great Aunt Hilda, or engaging in games of Twenty Questions with taciturn medical personnel, you can never be sure you've got the right answer.
It's not supposed to be like that.
When you're sick and need help, you're supposed to be
able to rely on a
doctor - a doctor who is knowledgeable, who really cares what happens to
you, and who will leave no stone unturned in seeing that you get exactly
what you need.
Unfortunately, having such a "model" doctor is becoming rare. Patients are on their own much more often, and to a much greater extent, than they used to be - and it's getting worse all the time.
If you've glanced at our Grand Unification Theory, you're acquainted with our contention that patients are feeling abandoned by the health care system because they really have been abandoned; and that (because widespread covert rationing is systematically destroying the doctor-patient relationship,) the abandonment of patients is happening by design rather than by chance. But even if you don't buy the official YourDoctorintheFamily.com explanation for the problem, the problem still remains.