Do you ever read your horrorscope?

[WelshBloke]

In my experience, few are better than most.

Spoiler: Two contrasting experiences

Experience 1: I had pain in my lower abdomen. The GP I saw didn't seem impressive (kinda young, not very talkative). He did a brief examination with his fingers, pressing down hard at the place I was complaining about and asked how much pain I felt. Then sent me off to get an ultrasound. Came back. He looked at it briefly then showed it to me and started explaining what I was seeing. Funny bit was, he was showing me voids in my intestine and told me these are pockets of gas and probably remarked in a serious tone something like "too much gas". I was dying from laughter inside but maintained my composure and listened intently. He finally concluded that it was probably some pulled muscle. I accepted it because I HAD been doing some intense push ups the other day.

Experience 2: I was suffering from excruciating back pain due to my ruptured disc. So I saw this young orthopaedic surgeon. He seemed intelligent. Pleasant welcoming personality. Greeted me warmly. Told me to try to bend over so he could assess how bad my back was. Then he told me that it was nothing bad. I said, but it hurts really bad. My disc is broken. And he's like, if it were serious, you would be immobile. Then he tells me cheerfully to take walks outside in the sun and maybe get a Vitamin D supplement and got rid of me.

You can imagine which experience I liked better.

I mean were both diagnosis right? If they were then both Drs gave pretty much the right advice. Gentle exercise and mild OTC pain killers is good advice for a herniated disc. Also gentle exercise will help with an excess of gas as well!

I actually can't tell which experience you preferred tbh!

 

[Muse]

George Harrison wrote "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" based on inspiration from the I Ching (and subsequently, another book).

Why did George Harrison write "While My guitar Gently Weeps"?

It was written by George Harrison, the band's lead guitarist, as an exercise in randomness inspired by the Chinese I Ching. The song conveys his dismay at the world's unrealised potential for universal love, which he refers to as "the love there that's sleeping".

 

[igor_kavinski]

So

I actually can't tell which experience you preferred tbh!

The gas one. The disc one I thought was a complete jerk of a doc because he made light of my terrible pain.

 

[WelshBloke]

So

The gas one. The disc one I thought was a complete jerk of a doc because he made light of my terrible pain.

He's not a magician though, he can't make the pain vanish without giving you inappropriate amounts of strong painkillers that would do you more harm than help!

 

[igor_kavinski]

"Unrealised potential for universal love"

Well, there can't be universal love coz if you would deign to study numerology/astrology, you would find that some people are complete opposites and there can never be harmony between them.

I'm a Monkey. My first job in UAE, I had to face a certain "possibly racist" A-hole.

In my current job, I know three people (and one who left) who were not compatible with me no matter how much I tried to be nice to them.

Guess what they all have in common?

They were all RABBITS.

 

[igor_kavinski]

He's not a magician though, he can't make the pain vanish without giving you inappropriate amounts of strong painkillers that would do you more harm than help!

It wasn't that. It was him just shrugging off my pain by saying, "if you are standing and able to walk. it's not serious enough".

That's a really bad thing to say to a patient who came to you for help.

 

[WelshBloke]

It wasn't that. It was him just shrugging off my pain by saying, "if you are standing and able to walk. it's not serious enough".

That's a really bad thing to say to a patient who came to you for help.

Disagree. If I go to a Dr with acute unexplained pain I want to know if it's a "get treatment or get worse" scenario or a "suck it up and wait for it to get better" scenario. And, tbh, I always hope it's the second!
I get that some people like sympathy over treatment but, imho, that's what your mum or SO is for!

 

[igor_kavinski]

Disagree. If I go to a Dr with acute unexplained pain I want to know if it's a "get treatment or get worse" scenario or a "suck it up and wait for it to get better" scenario.

If I pay a fee and the only professional advice I get is, just walk a lot and enjoy the sunshine, that's not OK with me.

He didn't ask to get an X-ray or ultrasound or MRI. He was just like, make this idiot go away. If he comes back still complaining about the pain, maybe I'll do something later. Of course, I simply changed the doctor and the hospital and other experiences were much better.

If all he had for me were hollow words, he should've refused to take the fee.

 

[WelshBloke]

If I pay a fee and the only professional advice I get is, just walk a lot and enjoy the sunshine, that's not OK with me.

He didn't ask to get an X-ray or ultrasound or MRI. He was just like, make this idiot go away. If he comes back still complaining about the pain, maybe I'll do something later. Of course, I simply changed the doctor and the hospital and other experiences were much better.

If all he had for me were hollow words, he should've refused to take the fee.

Working under the assumption that the diagnosis was correct (as you haven't said any difference) it sounds like he gave you the appropriate advice.
He could have booked you in for a bunch of unnecessary tests and treatments and charged you a bunch of cash for it. It's refreshing to see a Dr in a for profit system not trying to rinse as much profit out of a patient as possible tbh.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Working under the assumption that the diagnosis was correct (as you haven't said any difference) it sounds like he gave you the appropriate advice.
He could have booked you in for a bunch of unnecessary tests and treatments and charged you a bunch of cash for it. It's refreshing to see a Dr in a for profit system not trying to rinse as much profit out of a patient as possible tbh.

I spent the next two years wasting tons of money trying to get my back to heal. The money I paid him was absolutely redundant. He did not tell me to come back later after such and such time. Did not give me any reassurances that it will heal on its own. He was the absolute most worst doctor I've met in my life. The other doctors at least took X-rays and MRI and showed me the location where there was a problem and recommended physiotherapy etc. What helped in the end was this clinic https://www.kktspine.com and four or five monthly sessions of bloodletting from special places on the back that aided in the healing process. There were better treatment options but all of them were beyond my financial means so I was unable to try them.