Doctor

[Missy]

Does anyone always second guess their doctor? I always check on the internet to see if what he says is right.

 

[Phillies Phan]

Should be the other way around

 

[suzzeeb]

It should be the other way around, but I have had different doctors give me different advice and opinions for the same things so sometimes it's hard to know what is true.

 

[E.B]

Don't go but I know for my particular anxiety with going to the doc if I had 1 doc tell me from across the street that I was ok that's all I would need haha

 

[MATD]

I would second guess my doctor if necessary. Doctors are humans first, capable of making mistakes. Instead of inquiring of Google, however, I would get a second opinion from another doctor.

 

[Missy]

This is great advice. I sometimes get trapped in that rabbit hole. I am seeing a therapist who practices CBT. My negative thinking starts the chain reaction.

 

[blueberries]

Yes, I always question what the doctors tell me. Especially since they have been wrong so many times. Such as telling me I had a virus, let it run it course, when I actually had a bacterial infection that needed antibiotics or another one telling me I didn't have influenza because I had no symptoms of it (middle of January, symptoms were fever of 102+ for 5 days, headache, respiratory extreme fatigue and exhaustion, sore throat, cough, etc). I asked him what symptoms I didn't have and he said my fever wasn't high enough and I wasn't vomiting. Or giving a completely wrong diagnosis for a skin rash.

Unfortunately I've lost faith in doctors always being right, because quite honestly, they aren't. It's understandable, there are how many different possible diseases and diagnoses? It would be impossible to expect a doctor to know each and every one. If it's a clear cut yes or no disease, such as yes, that is chicken pox, or yes, that is appendicitis, they do great, but for a lot of other issues, not so great.