Am I the only one to find that good/smart doctors...

[imported_goku]

I've already told my story about my toe but then I remember about my mom when she got her foot infected and they did an operation but manage to bork something so simple as an ingrown toenail fix... Am I the only one who thinks smart, capable doctors who seem to actually have some sort of form of logic are few are far between? I just find this frustrating and confusing at the same time, what happened to doctors being smart? Seems like to me that most doctors are extremely overrated just because med school is hard..

 

[Goosemaster]

toe?

 

[KLin]

I think you should stop posting.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: KLin
I think you should stop posting.

I just got off the phone with the President and he agrees.

 

[vi edit]

Med school isn't the hard part. It's the years of residency afterwards that are the killers.

 

[Slew Foot]

Hard to practice good medicine when you cant understand your patients.

 

[imported_goku]

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
Hard to practice good medicine when you cant understand your patients.

Agreed but I'm assuming that you're saying I'm difficult to understand?

How hard is to understand this, I've got fibre glass in my foot, fix it. I've got an infected toe, fix it. ?????

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: goku

Originally posted by: Slew Foot
Hard to practice good medicine when you cant understand your patients.

Agreed but I'm assuming that you're saying I'm difficult to understand?

How hard is to understand this, I've got fibre glass in my foot, fix it. I've got an infected toe, fix it. ?????

fix the fiberglass? I'm sorry sir, but it's gone.

 

[AgentJean]

There is no differnece between what a General Practice doctor does and what PC tech does(i'm a PC tech). We both get the symptons of the problem consult a book and then treat accordingly.

The differneces are: Mr MD has a boat load of more loans then I do and gets paid more.
Pluse they go to school for 12 years. But that doesn't mean they don't goof off like "normal" people .

There's also the matter of life and death which doctors have to deal with. Although being a PC tech people tell me all the time that getting their machince fixed by the end of the day is a matter of life and death do to some homework they need to do or filling their taxes or some crazy crap.

Docs also have to have a kind of bedside manner which I just don't have. If a computer is DOA, I'll rip out the parts I can salvage and then throw the junk in the dumpster.

"Heart attack in room 1? Tag the body as scrap and send it to the OR for salvage recovery",

yea, some how I don't think Mrs Smith would like hearing that after her husband croked.

 

[AreaCode707]

I'm with you. I've found it's hard to get a good doctor. I tend to like doctors that were educated partially or entirely outside the US. Some of the best doctors I've had were from Sri Lanka, Thailand and Nigeria, with some US education at the higher levels.

 

[slayer202]

I agree. I have seen many good doctors, and many bad ones as well. When you find a good one its pretty easy to stick with em, and find other good ones through him/her.

 

[vi edit]

One suggestion to help locate a primary care physician is to find a doc that specialized in internal medicine. They have quite a bit more in depth training in diagnosis than your run of the mill family practice docs that have no further specializations.

 

[Turnpike]

Originally posted by: AgentJean
There is no differnece between what a General Practice doctor does and what PC tech does(i'm a PC tech). We both get the symptons of the problem consult a book and then treat accordingly.

you're kidding right? you are comparing a doctor to a pc tech? might as well compare a neurosurgeon to a mechanic while you're at it.