Bad health advice?

[Lamb]

Has your doctor ever given you bad health advice?

 

[tango]

Has your doctor ever given you bad health advice?

My wife once saw a stand-in doctor who saw a few of her blood numbers were very marginally outside ideal boundaries and wanted to put her on several medications to manage these "conditions". He even took me to task for questioning whether it was really necessary. When our regular doctor was back her response was much like my wife and I expected, she didn't have any conditions and her numbers being slightly out of range could be addressed with a couple of lifestyle changes. Sure enough, next time she had bloodwork done everything was within the expected range.

For me any time a doctor's first port of call is medication, unless a condition very clearly needs it, I rapidly lose respect for them.

 

[Lamb]

My wife once saw a stand-in doctor who saw a few of her blood numbers were very marginally outside ideal boundaries and wanted to put her on several medications to manage these "conditions". He even took me to task for questioning whether it was really necessary. When our regular doctor was back her response was much like my wife and I expected, she didn't have any conditions and her numbers being slightly out of range could be addressed with a couple of lifestyle changes. Sure enough, next time she had bloodwork done everything was within the expected range.

For me any time a doctor's first port of call is medication, unless a condition very clearly needs it, I rapidly lose respect for them.

I would have been really mad at that first doctor! We've been fortunate to have some doctors who do the wait and see method and it's worked out for some things.

 

[Edward429451]

For me any time a doctor's first port of call is medication, unless a condition very clearly needs it, I rapidly lose respect for them.

Have you ever read the text of (the Original) Hippocratic oath? That's what it says in large part, don't just give em a pill!

But back in 1969? They rewrote the hippocratic oath and now it reads, if you patient has a stubbed toe, give em a Pill!

That's all that my Doctor does is give me bad health advice. I haven't actually ever called her a liar, but I do challenge what she says with, the name of Jesus. They want my & you to be sick and need them. I resist them at every turn. She used to ask me every visit, have you been depressed? I said, but you're a doctor, don't you ever write anything down? I tild you 18 times already I'm not depressed! If I ever do get depressed, you'll be the first one I call Doc...(Lie!)

Jesus is called the Great Physician. So you go to Him first for health advice.

 

[tango]

I would have been really mad at that first doctor! We've been fortunate to have some doctors who do the wait and see method and it's worked out for some things.

I had a few words with him on the followup appointment, and made a mental note that I'd rather not see a doctor at all than ever darken his door again.

 

[Lamb]

I had a few words with him on the followup appointment, and made a mental note that I'd rather not see a doctor at all than ever darken his door again.

They aren't all bad. And sometimes the nurse practitioners are better than the doctors!

 

[Edward429451]

They aren't all bad. And sometimes the nurse practitioners are better than the doctors!

What's the difference between nurse practitioners and MD's?

 

[Lamb]

What's the difference between nurse practitioners and MD's?

What do you mean? Education wise? Or in the office?

 

[Edward429451]

What do you mean? Education wise? Or in the office?

Both I think.

You see I had a doctor, a female MD that I was going to and she was ok, but then she moved to a clinic over in the next town and I wont drive that far.

SO about a year later after I found a new doctor, there's some guy on the street handing out fliers for the doctoring outfit he works for. I was sort of interested so talked to him and he whips out a flier with my old doctor's picture on it which I recognized immediatey and she was ok so I made an appointment with them and they had info all over about her, as a NPR or something like that and she was billing herself as an MD before. So now I am wondering she lied before and is not an MD, but a NPR instead. I *think* that an MD is higher in education and can do more? But I really am not sure, so I asked.

 

[Lamb]

Both I think.

You see I had a doctor, a female MD that I was going to and she was ok, but then she moved to a clinic over in the next town and I wont drive that far.

SO about a year later after I found a new doctor, there's some guy on the street handing out fliers for the doctoring outfit he works for. I was sort of interested so talked to him and he whips out a flier with my old doctor's picture on it which I recognized immediatey and she was ok so I made an appointment with them and they had info all over about her, as a NPR or something like that and she was billing herself as an MD before. So now I am wondering she lied before and is not an MD, but a NPR instead. I *think* that an MD is higher in education and can do more? But I really am not sure, so I asked.

I don't know how a doctor's office would say that a NPR was actually an MD? I do know that when I deal with the nurse practitioner at my Endo that the billing is under my doctor because that's how the office does it. I have the doctor there at the office, but there is a team of people who care for me, so the billing is under my doctor.

 

[tango]

They aren't all bad. And sometimes the nurse practitioners are better than the doctors!

They definitely aren't all bad, our current doctor is perfectly willing to focus on lifestyle changes before medication. It's just that one particular doctor I never plan to visit again.

 

[Edward429451]

I don't know how a doctor's office would say that a NPR was actually an MD? I do know that when I deal with the nurse practitioner at my Endo that the billing is under my doctor because that's how the office does it. I have the doctor there at the office, but there is a team of people who care for me, so the billing is under my doctor.

That's what I thought. So she lied and misrepresented herself at the other office as a MD. I wonder if there's a lot of that in the industry?

 

[Lamb]

That's what I thought. So she lied and misrepresented herself at the other office as a MD. I wonder if there's a lot of that in the industry?

No, my nurse practitioner did not lie. The billing is for the "doctor" as in the office.

 

[Edward429451]

No, my nurse practitioner did not lie. The billing is for the "doctor" as in the office.

No, I mean my doctor lied to me.

 

[Forgiven1]

A nurse partitioner is a nurse. They get their RN, then BSN then a MSN and go to school to learn what a nurse practitioner needs to know. A Doctor has gone to medical school specializing in the area they practice in. A nurse practitioner usually works in a physician's office. Though is some states, they can open their own practice. The scope of practice for each is different. Nurse practitioners do not perform surgery. To call a nurse practitioner a doctor is wrong.