Highly depends where you live. In Hungary most doctors are already burned out so most of them won't be able to treat you according to the highest level of their knowledge.

by nedra49 2 days ago

I think "not caring enough" ties in with the fact that they are usually academically high achieving, but lacking in empathy or social skills. There are many exceptions to this of course but in general, we probably all remember the eccentric genius from school. Awkward and antisocial but brilliant.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

That depends highly on your gender

by Anonymous 2 days ago

And the color of your skin.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Tell me you're a man without telling me you're a man

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Try 14 years of bad doctor after bad doctor until you almost die, but wind of diagnosing yourself, then finally convince a surgeon to cut out the bad organ, saving your life. You get a bit jaded. I see doctors as a means to an end. I've had a few good ones, but I base my judgment on good or bad on the individual. There are too many bad ones to not be cautious. From my experience, I hope it is just anecdotal and not an accurate representation, over 50% have not been good. I have seen many doctors. Getting them to listen can be hell.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

or....they are all actually incompetent and missed something.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

You're a man aren't you. This is a very male opinion to have. Source: my stomach cancer that went undiagnosed for two years because every doctor I spoke to blamed it on my period, called me fat, or gave me antipsychotics about it

by Koelpingarett 1 day ago

How are you doing now?

by Expert_Birthday_1799 1 day ago

The other possibility is that you have a really weird condition that a lot of doctors don't know about or that they don't listen to what you're saying. This isn't me but I've known people who have a really tough time because their cases are a little out of the norm, and the doctors aren't looking at their history properly. It doesn't make them bad doctors, but one can understand why some people get frustrated with the system.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I don't know... I agree some people are the problem. I do however, think your take is a bit harsh. If it takes 10 doctors to diganose something, that's 9 doctors who didn't ask the right questions. If you want to get your car fixed, you aren't expected to tell the mechanic exactly what the issue is. It's the mechanics job to figure that out. It's worse when you factor in medical misogyny. Women are going to multiple doctors and being ignored and dismissed. People are literally dying, because someone has decided you have anxiety, or have a period, or are fat.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

100% depends where you live.

by Few_Entertainer8866 1 day ago

Medical misogyny is a thing, a big thing, a big problem that you do not get to dismiss or diminish

by Anonymous 1 day ago

The thing with medicine is, doctors are really good at treating whatever diagnostic categories they have discovered/invented. However, not all illnesses fall neatly into those diagnostic categories. If someone's health issues don't align with what doctors have been taught, many aren't able to think outside the box and actually help the person.. I say this as someone who has sought help for that kind of health issues and as someone who is soon graduating med school. Plenty of health issues aren't properly understood yet. It actually does say more about the field of medicine than the person.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

This is not true at all. Part of my PhD thesis involved looking at bioethics and medical humanities. There are legitimate reasons why marginalised communities have a long standing mistrust of doctors. Health care also is shoddy for long term conditions, particularly if they exhibit in patients under researched and under supported (women, people of colour, queer people). If people ard going to multiple doctors and being ignored then that's a system failure. Multiple trips should be logged and cause concern for an issue clearly not being treated or managed well enough. The fact is doctors and nurses work horrendous hours, under systems of bureaucracy, systems of inequality, often with inadequate pay and too little time to engage with research and training when their schedules are always crammed anyway. They are human, mistakes are incredibly common and the system makes some issues (like not taking abdominal pain in young women seriously) repetitive and disenfranchising for patients.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I'd agree while also disagreeing. Most medical doctors are definitely competitant ... but the body and everything that can go wrong with it is constantly evolving so misdiagnosis and failed treatments are a natural part of medicine. I happen to suffer from a dermatological condition that's not well known and is often diagnosed as other conditions with very similar symptoms. The fact that a doctor might hear my symptoms and diagnose me with one of the other more common conditions does not make him a bad doctor ... but it also doesn't make me a bad patient. It took 6 doctors to correctly diagnose me and even then I was only correctly diagnosed because a CNA had happened to read a article in a medical journal during her lunch break about how my condition was often misdiagnosed as lymphatic cysts.

by Background_Dance 1 day ago

If you're "colleagues" (what I assume you were trying to spell), why do you think the amount of money you make has anything to do with their intelligence? For example, not one of your sentences was above a fourth grade level, but you think you're smarter than someone who completed MEDICAL school and their residency during a pandemic? Please, enlighten us with your stories. It's always good to have the fools to show children how not to be.

by Feisty-Report-5001 1 day ago

The entire environment has shifted the old gen quit and it's entirely different. But j digress he's still my doctor lol

by Anonymous 1 day ago

…what

by Feisty-Report-5001 1 day ago