Trust for Doctors

[thisnthat]

After some of the garbage I've put up with, it makes me very cautious if I encounter a new healthcare provider (specialist, etc.).

I swear one doc was only interested in prescribing every "latest and greatest" drug that came along. She would try to find something wrong just to write a script. She asked my child over and over again, "are you sure you haven't had any wheezing?" We told her no, again and again. She said, "Well, we better get you a prescription, just in case," and proceeded to try to put my child on the latest asthma medication even though she did not have asthma or any other chronic respiratory issue.

Stuff like that has made me go a little overboard in caution, I suppose, but I'd rather be safe than sorry.

 

[Imlarainebow]

I don't trust doctors because they don't deserve trust. I suffered for so many years from hypothyroidism because I was blown off, even though symptoms I complained of are well known symptoms of thyroid disease. I went to a doctor 5 years ago complaining of many symptoms, chiefly being hungry all the time. He kept pushing anti depressants on me (he just said why don't you try Zoloft, never even said it was an anti depressant) and screamed at me for refusing treatment. I told him my problems were physical so how could anti depressants help me. I relented thinking maybe he'd finally listen to me if he saw I still felt like crap. He had me come in every month acting like he was trying to figure out what's going on and when I asked him why he prescribed me anti depressants he kept dodging the question. I finally left his office and requested my records. It was only then that I saw that he blamed all my problems on depression. Never once did he tell me that. Nor did he get proper informed consent for the anti depressant (telling you it's an anti depressant, why he thinks it's depression bothering me, how they will help me, side effects......) If he'd said my problems were all depression, I could've said if I'm upset I don't eat. Also, my chief complaint was never mentioned in the notes, but my marital status was. He also hounded me because I refuse to get a well woman visit. They blow women off as hysterical and treat us like everything is all in our heads but push screening, which is extremely invasive, for rare cancers down our throat, but can't comprehend why patients don't trust them.