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I hate doctors.
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moshquerade
No Lifer
i think the dentist hate mostly comes from people not liking to have their teeth/mouths worked on. sure it hurts the pocketbook too, but people tell me all the time, "i hate being here". i just tell them i don't like being in that chair either, but it's something we all need to do.
sigh. It's sad how uniformed people are. Threads like this really excite me to kill myself during med school and residency just to come out and start practicing in a country where people think WebMD (man I hate WebMD sometimes, what a pita) is more accurate and your physician is just trying to screw you.
TraumaRN
Diamond Member
Except in an emergency. If something is immediately life or limb threatening, even if you are alert, oriented and capable of making your own medical decisions then you can be overruled. However, if you can walk out we cant stop you even in an emergency situation(unless you aren't mentally competant)
LongCoolMother
Diamond Member
yeah medical professionals are important. but..... when I get a filling at the dentist, it costs hundreds of dollars for a ~20-30 minute procedure. I mean, does the dentist's skill and time really warrant a wage of $hundreds per hour? Apparently so...
moshquerade
No Lifer
i dunno. graduate from dental school, become licensed to practice dentistry, set up your own practice, and then let me know what you think.
TraumaRN
Diamond Member
Which some people cant walk out and refuse and refuse....then once your mental status/respiratory status/cardiovascular status starts to fail you can't resist anymore and unless you have a DNR or someone acting as your durable power of attorney, or living will, something along those lines we'll do everything medically that we can. It is kinda twisted in a way...but we as medical professionals get stuck between a rock and a hard place at times.
Case and point, we had a fairly sick guy come in last week to the ER. We told him that despite him being clear of mind and mentally competent that he needed to be placed on a ventilator, sooner rather than later, he refused. However, he was much too weak to walk out. So we took care of him as best we could given his illness and waited. Ironically enough when the ICU resident came to examine the patient, the patient became unconscious and was promptly intubated and placed on a ventilator, despite his earlier refusal it now became medically emergent and he had no living will, power of attorney or a DNR. So we did what was deemed medically necessary.
But on the other hand, if we did nothing he was going to die within hours from his illness.
Capt Caveman
Lifer
You could always say No and buy one at CVS instead.
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