Spot on. Have helped several people with health problems and have often corrected poor doctor care. Won’t go into details but no one....NO ONE ....should blindly follow what a doctor says. Especially people that have multiple doctors for different issues. If you see several different specialists get the email for the office and update every one anytime you change meds or have a change in your health. Verify that any new meds don’t conflict with existing meds or alter your condition in some critical way.
Doctors are over worked and only have a short time to see you. They don’t talk to each other on a regular basis and don’t regularly check your status weekly. If you get a new med that counters some other...but you do see the speciality at ordered for a month or two....you could be dead or seriously ill by then.
Doctors are also biased to their specialty. PCPs recommend drugs, surgeons recommend surgery, physical therapists recommend PT, .....acupuncture , nutritionists, voodoo,.....all biased. Get second or third options for big stuff.
A member of my pool team tested positive for Covid and they told him he was positive for two different strains of it. They suggested he contact his primary care doctor and get a script for monoclonal antibodies (MAB). He calls his doctor's office and the they tell him the MAB IV has a lot of bad chemicals in it and he won't write a script for them for anyone.
The medical profession is just like any other profession with good and bad practitioners. You need to do your homework and not just rely on one doctor. 2nd opinions are good and never tell the 2nd doctor what the first one said until they give you their diagnosis or you won't truly get a 2nd opinion.
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